memories
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Stubborn and Spunky
I went to visit my Grandma last week. (She is the girl with glasses in the picture above.) She is 90 years old and in a wheelchair since she had a stroke a year and a half ago. That sounds sad, doesn’t it? It is sad but at the same time, Grandma is the spunkiest lady I know. She is absolutely determined not to let a little thing like a stroke stop her. Her right side was paralyzed. Grandma is right-handed. In recent years she has taken up poetry writing and oil painting. She still does both, just with her left hand. She painstakingly types out her poems on her…
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Little Things #2
Sometimes it really does not take much to brighten my day. Here are a few things that have made me happy lately. We went to the bookstore. I do enjoy a good wander through a bookstore and thankfully the rest of my family does as well. I only bought two things. The first was this book. Has anyone read it? It sounds like just the type of thing I like. I am fascinated by social history. I love reading about how people lived and what their everyday lives were like. At first, I was afraid it was just a fluff book capitalizing on the Downton Abbey craze but it doesn’t…
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The Olden Days
My daughter and I were eating lunch together the other day when she looked at me and asked, “Wouldn’t you like to know what a typewriter sounds like, Mom? I would.” I’ll let that sink in for a minute. Yes, the current generation has never heard the sound of typewriter keys. Maybe that shouldn’t surprise me, but it does. I told her I knew exactly what a typewriter sounds like, I used to use one. And that is when she told me that it wasn’t possible for me to know that because typewriters are from the olden days. I told her that the obvious conclusion is that I am from…
