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Sarcoxie Days

Posted by By gballwvo September 8, 2014Posted inChildhood memories, cooking, Family, Life, Travel, Uncategorized1 Comment
9/7/14  I'm on my way home!  Yay!  Yesterday we went to breakfast at The Hungry House with Maxine.  It was raining and cold after the 90 degree heat of the…
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Unforgettable

Posted by By gballwvo May 30, 2014Posted inChildhood memories, Life, Uncategorized
How many times have you heard something billed as unforgettable?  How many times have you forgotten that something?  I consider it false advertising, as in the case of E's promotion…
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When I Was A Bully

Posted by By gballwvo March 11, 2014Posted inChildhood memories, Friendship, Life, Social Commentary, Uncategorized
Her name was Marie.  We were in first grade at a Catholic School in a small Midwestern town. It doesn't matter where we were or how old we were.  My…
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After All These Years Say Goodbye to Tiny Tears

Posted by By gballwvo September 6, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Life, Uncategorized, Writing Romance2 Comments
On a shelf in my closet hidden in a white plastic bag are my dolls.  They’ve been in that bag on that shelf for seventeen years.  Before that, they were…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Nine, The Rest of the Trip

Posted by By gballwvo July 24, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Family, Friendship, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing
On Tuesday Sue and I head to Utica because there is a place there that does wine tasting and features wine from a local winery.  The entire time I lived…
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The Pink Nightshirt

Posted by By gballwvo July 14, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Family, Mothers, Uncategorized
Downsizing living quarters is never easy.  During the pre-transition, packing stage it’s a constant battle over what to keep and what to let go.  Will I need it?  Have I…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Six

Posted by By gballwvo June 29, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Family, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized
We return to what I’ve come to think of as The House of Dust.  Two years unoccupied.  We opened the windows to air the house out when we arrived on…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Five

Posted by By gballwvo June 23, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Family, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized2 Comments
We go into the living room to chat some more.  Of course Mom can’t hear anything even when someone shouts.  No one is sitting close to her to repeat everything…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Three

Posted by By gballwvo June 19, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Drinking, Family, Life, Uncategorized
        Mom launches into a reminiscence about her own parents.  Her mother had to get up every morning and make biscuits from scratch on an old wood cook stove.  My…
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Have You Been Where Your Parents Were Born?

Posted by By gballwvo August 30, 2011Posted inChildhood memories, Life2 Comments
Yes, I have been to Southwest Missouri many times.  My dad grew up on a farm on “the prairie” during The Great Depression.  He was the eldest of five children and…
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