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Thanksgiving is over. In the past three days I have served a total of 41 guests at various times. Now, my husband is on the way to the airport with two of my children who are heading back East, where they live. My future daughter-in-law will be leaving tomorrow and I am already experiencing the […]
My sister recalls that I came home from Kindergarten and told my mother that I wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving. At that point my parents and sister would have been living in the United States for about seven years, and were open to the idea of celebrating this “American” holiday. That was the beginning of a […]
Our family was very small. None of my mother’s siblings had survived the war, but my father had two brothers and a sister that lived close by. His oldest brother, Uncle Jack, was the debonair one in the family, always beautiful dressed with his Homburg perched perfectly on his head. Jack had emigrated to France […]
I have been away for ten days visiting family and friends on the East Coast. As always, my trips to New York City bring back memories that surface with the simple turn of a street corner. This particular trip had a purpose, to hear my older son present his senior sermon to his peers and […]
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