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Mom and Dad were industrious types, like their Irish-English ancestors before them. (Unfortunately, they became the end of the family line in that trait.) So it didn’t surprise me that they spent half a day picking grapes at a pick-your-own-grapes place shortly before I arrived for a visit. It didn’t even surprise me that they [...]

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Mom got her first pedicure after she was in her 80′s, and she liked it. Who knew? She even had a favorite manicurist, David, who owned the little nail salon with his wife. I don’t have the right photo to accompany this story, so you’ll have to imagine the scene as I took Mom in [...]

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Outrageous the First

by Kathi D on May 12, 2008

The very first outrageous thing my mom and I did together was to lounge in the hospital for Christmas, while Dad was at home making a festive dinner and being Santa for the four older kids. Back then (183 years ago) new mothers remained in the hospital for several days, resting and sharing care of [...]

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M is for

by Kathi D on May 9, 2008

the many things you taught me, like the time your much-laundered Keds had a hole in the toe and you painted your pinky toe white so it would be less noticeable that a gal with a sweet Southern accent can always talk her way out of a ticket (my accent wasn’t sweet enough or Southern [...]

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An old dirt farmer

by Kathi D on January 4, 2008

I seem to be mirroring Angry Chicken these days. Yesterday, she posted about making marshamallows, and after years of “planning to” I finally made some this year too. It was easier than I thought it would be, and is quite impressive to friends and loved ones who don’t know that a person can actually make [...]

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