Sunday Stealing: The Over the Top Meme

Sunday, November 15, 2009

This week’s meme comes from Linda at Are We There Yet?

The Over the Top Meme

Part One – Describe:

Your hair? Short, spiky, with blond highlighting.

Your mother? Tenacious, talented, and never fulfilled because she was unable to complete her education. Hence, she was determined to instill in me the desire to complete my education, a goal she lived to see me attain. She was always frustrated that her labor at home did not result in a financial contribution to the household, but she knew how valuable her work was. Still, she pushed me to make my own money, encouraging me to “never be dependent upon a man” for support. And indeed, I never have been.

Your father? The hardest working person I have ever known, with the possible exception of my mother. He was “self-made” in the sense that he dropped out of high school in his freshman year and went to work. It was during World War II when he was drafted into the Army that his mechanical abilities were fleshed out through vocational testing. He served in the motor pool of the Army Air Corps and continued working as an auto mechanic after he was discharged, first for the Chevrolet-Buick-John Deere dealership in the little town in South Dakota where we lived. After we moved to California when I was just six months old, he worked briefly at Chase Chevrolet in Stockton. But Gene Gabbard was opening a Lincoln-Mercury dealership, so he went to work there to avoid the night shift. And remained for 27 years until he retired at the age of 65 in 1984.

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I Have a Confession

Saturday, November 7, 2009

“In the end, your family tree is a diagram of a thousand choices, all made in your favor.”
Robert Brault

I am so enjoying watching the colors of the leaves on my trees change.

Parenting is hardly an exact science. In fact, it is really the biggest conceivable game of roulette because virtually every decision a parent makes is fraught with uncertainty. The outcome is often unpredictable and we frequently don’t learn the consequences of our choices for many years.

I haven’t written much about the changes that have taken place in my life over the course of the past several months, although all of my friends and many of my colleagues are aware that I bought another home. And that I am living in it with my two sons, but not with my husband. He continues residing, along with our two dogs, Buddy and Sophie, in the home my parents built and in which I was raised.

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Sunday Citar: All Saints Day

Sunday, November 1, 2009

My parents celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, March 1991.

“All of the places of our lives are sanctuaries; some of them just happen to have steeples. And all of the people in our lives are saints; it is just that some of them have day jobs and most will never have feast days named for them.”

Robert Benson
Between the Dreaming and the Coming True

Sunday Citar is a weekly writing exercise hosted by Fresh Mommy.


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Carnival of Family Life: Happy Halloween 2009 Edition

October 31, 2009
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Welcome to the Happy Halloween 2009 Edition of the Carnival of Family Life! We have scared up a wonderful collection of family-focused articles for your enjoyment!
Family Cooking & Recipes
Cyndi presents Grilled vegetables with chipotle-lime sauce posted at Real Food Fast!.
Make it from Scratch presents Pumpkin Pie from a Pumpkin posted at Make It From [...]

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Sunday Stealing: The Halloween Meme

October 24, 2009
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This week’s meme comes from Apryl at Meridian Ariel.
The Halloween Meme
1. What is your favorite written work of horror fiction?
I am not a big fan of horror fiction, but my favorite would probably have to be The Other by Thomas Tryon. I remember reading it when it was first published and it enthralling.
2. What [...]

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Harvest of Friends Blog Party

October 24, 2009
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Lynette Kraft at Dancing Barefoot on Weathered Ground is hosting a Harvest of Friends Blog Party, an opportunity to get acquainted with bloggers whose sites you may never have visited before or get to know familiar bloggers better.
If you have not visited Colloquium before, you can read a bit about me here. Additionally, Lynette [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

October 21, 2009
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Sunday Stealing: The ABC’s of Meme

October 17, 2009
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This week’s meme comes from Maggie at Mind of a Woman. She found it at Loralee’s Looney Tunes.
A – Advocate for: Civil rights / equality.
B – Best Feature: My smile.
C – Could do without: Politics in any form.
D – Dreams and desires: At this point, I’m pretty content, so my desire is to remain [...]

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Saturday Nine: Inside Job

October 17, 2009
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1. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I used to tell my mother that when I grew up I was going to be “rich and famous,” and buy her a mansion. I wanted to be a professional musician and began college as a music and theater major. [...]

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