Category: Willows, Memories from Back Home
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Homesickness
When you live in a foreign country rather than the one you know as home, certain things you expect will be different, unusual, and far from the norm of what you are…
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Long Distance Love
Saying goodbye to my family in California does not grow easier. How could it be? Instead of going down the rabbit hole of longing to have everyone I love in one place, the impossible dream. I remind myself how…
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100 Year Old Cheese Company in My Hometown Willows
When I was a teenager I worked one summer at the Rumiano Cheese Company. Their cheese is excellent and the company has grown over the years. Their son Owen moved to France over a year ago to be with his…
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The Story of Family
The history of my family started back before any of us were born, back before history was recorded, before ink and pen, somewhere amongst a woman's arms and a man's kiss, somewhere in the middle of a heart…
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A Circle of Love
When Chelsea tried on the first of many wedding dresses, my mom asked her granddaughters, (my nieces and Chelsea's first cousins) to hold hands ans circle her in love. I felt a tradition was born in that moment. …