Tag: memories
group name: childhoodstories
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April 17, 2006 11:43 PM EDT --
Mom was big into putting her hair in rollers, called setting her hair. She had a big white plastic bowl next to the radiator on the kitchen floor that held all the rollers and the corresponding pins needed . . . more
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August 08, 2007 09:30 PM EDT --
My Dad is 79 and has dementia; I'm his youngest child and only daughter at age 48. I don't know when the dementia started, but I started noticing it about two years ago, it seems like ninety. . . . more
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June 12, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
My dad died several years ago.
You didn't know him.
Then again, maybe you did.
My dad was the guy on the boardwalk wearing black socks and sandals, the guy at the checkout counter who couldn't . . . more
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June 06, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
This isn’t actually a childhood memory I have concerning my dad but rather a story my dad told me about the latter part of his own childhood.
In 1950, my dad, Richard Klamm, graduated from Washington . . . more
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July 04, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
When I was a kid, I used to visit my grandparents for a couple of weeks every summer. They lived in a retirement community near the Lake of the Ozarks of Missouri. Every morning, Grandma Alice would . . . more
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August 08, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
Written March 4, 2004
My mother’s mother (Nana) came to live with us when my father went to jail. I was seven. Nana had a house back in Peabody, but no means of support. Mum thought she could use . . . more
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May 04, 2006 05:51 PM EDT --
OK, I guess I will join this foray of "interesting things about me." I think it's a great way to get to know each other on Gather.
I married a wonderful gentleman and I love my husband; . . . more
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December 02, 2006 03:04 AM EST --
"Leaves are fallin' all around, it's time I was on my way." I'm singing along to this song, Ramble On by Led Zeppelin- from the album that Trish borrowed from her friend, . . . more
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July 29, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
Greka was my grandmother. Greka was my older cousin Sheryl's attempt to say grandmother and Eva. My grandmother called my grandfather Eddy all the time and Sheryl tried to say Eddy and it came out . . . more
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August 02, 2007 11:58 PM EDT --
With a twinkle and a smile,
He endeared himself to me
Asked me what I wanted
Underneath the Christmas tree.
With his snappy red suit soft,
With his kind and gentle voice
He made me feel important . . . more
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June 15, 2008 12:34 AM EDT --
I admire my father for so many reasons. He's honest, funny, supportive, kind loving, wise and easy going...and that's just for starters. Everyone who knows my dad, likes him.
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September 17, 2007 11:07 PM EDT --
My favorite Uncle was my great Uncle Sidney. He was my Grandmothers sister Ada's husband. He was a tall man who smoked a pipe and let me sit on his lap. He was gentle and intelligent. He spoke softly . . . more
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June 07, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
I imagine it started with soft tosses to build my confidence, but what I remember is your throwing hard fastballs and nasty curves so that I'd be ready for whatever others might throw at me. . . . more
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July 25, 2006 09:53 PM EDT --
We are sitting on the deck of the house Dad built, most of it with his own hands. I remember "helping" to clear the land when I was about eight years old. It was a summer house until we moved . . . more
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March 15, 2007 01:23 AM EDT --
When I turned five I remember my Daddy going away for awhile. I didn’t know where he was, but Mama said he had gone to another city to get a job. I thought he would just go there for awhile and then . . . more
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July 07, 2008 06:20 PM EDT --
Children don't grown up in their own neighborhoods any more. They go to Day Camp, Computer Camp, Tennis Camp, Vacation Bible School and other activity centers. Moms and Dads are at . . . more
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June 17, 2007 04:11 PM EDT --
This is one of my favorite pictures of my Dad. It was probably taken in February, 1961, not too many days after I was born. I have the greatest Dad in the world and I love him and appreciate . . . more
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June 06, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
I just received some photos my uncle had taken long, long ago, when I was too young to realize that my perfect little world would change - too young to dream dreams of my own, so I dreamed the dreams . . . more
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August 10, 2006 10:05 PM EDT --
Today I saw a plant catalog offering seedling trees of Ulmus Americana, the American Elm, for sale. I want some, although I'm not sure they will thrive here in South Georgia.
I grew up in the Midwest, . . . more
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December 11, 2007 10:48 AM EST --
Robbie needs all the votes he can get.
http://pic6.piczo.com/newlybuilt/?g=32361721&cr=6&vsrc=preview
on the left is the names his is Robert Earl
Thank you . . . more
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