by Kathi D on November 4, 2008
During all my elementary school years, I was the kid who raised her hand when the question was, “Whose mom can . . . ?” because “My mom doesn’t work!” Nope, my mom just had five kids and a dog, a homeless pregnant cat now and then, and the occasional fruit jar containing a tarantula [...]
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Dad,
My brother Bob,
True Tales of the Family
by Kathi D on October 30, 2008
Here’s what my Actual Brother Bob had to say about my dehydrator fire: reminds me of when kathi nearly burned the house down and I got blamed for it. but I’m not bitter about it. I believe he was talking about the incident I wrote about in this post, which certainly wasn’t my fault (exactly). [...]
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My brother Bob
by Kathi D on August 28, 2008
Here is what helps. Lovely people that I don’t know at all, others that I haven’t met but somehow know in a pretty deep way, and people I have known a long, long time, who offer words of comfort because they know what it’s like to hurt over “just a dog.” Thank you all, and [...]
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Bonnie & Bronco,
Chickens,
husband,
Mothers,
My brother Bob,
vegetable garden
by Kathi D on August 25, 2008
As we sit here today keeping an eye on Bronco, who still won’t eat and isn’t being at all perky, I am trying to find mindless entertainments to keep my mind occupied. This website cracks me up regularly. Today I saw a cake that I will have to remember next April for My Brother Bob’s [...]
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Bonnie & Bronco,
My brother Bob
by Kathi D on August 11, 2008
My brother Bob has always been far ahead of his time. I well remember the day, he was about 8 years old, I think, when he said, “Mama, someday I want to be an Olympic athlete. I want to be a synchronized diver.” Alas, it was not to be. If only he had been born [...]
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My brother Bob,
Wayback Machine
by Kathi D on July 24, 2008
I unearthed a document recently that is as old as I am (238 years). I must say, it answered a lot of questions that had been simmering at the back of my mind my whole life. One, was I really left on my parents’ doorstep, wrapped in a potato sack, like my brother Bob always [...]
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Mom,
My brother Bob
by Kathi D on June 17, 2008
I am telling you again, the chickens are fine, JUST FINE! They really do stretch out like that just to freak me out, which they do every time, even though I should be used to it by now. I think chickens have a little passive-aggressive mean streak. When they were tiny baby chicks, they would [...]
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My brother Bob,
The blog
by Kathi D on June 14, 2008
Today is my dad’s birth anniversary. He was born on June 14, 1916. We never thought it was a coincidence that the celebration of Flag Day was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, thereby establishing that on the day Dad was born, Americans began raising the flag every year on [...]
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My brother Bob