Category: Willows, Memories from Back Home
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A Photo Stirs Memories
Going through a box of photos, I came across this one from the early 80s — my dad, my brothers, and a childhood friend. I sent it in a text to my brothers, and this is what they had to…
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Thanksgiving 2021
Thanksgiving 2021 — Gathering in the kitchen holding hands in a circle to give grace We knew Thanksgiving would be different my brother Marty wasn’t with us. Each of us took an infamous turkey cookie held it up…
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Thanksgiving
We miss you. My Mother prepares the Thanksgiving meal. Every year one of the traditional things that she makes are butter cookies that she cuts out with a red cookie cutter that is shaped like a turkey. Setting the…
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Home
What speaks my mother's kitchen to me: – The sugar bowl and spoon, the exact same one since forever, in the exact same place in the cupboard. – The small old dust brooms laced on a rod for a…
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Rose’s Love Letter
In a box at the flea market,Dusty and forgotten,Memories slept closely to one another while silently dreaming of another place and time. Once cherished. Placed carefully. Peeked at when the heart ached, or feelings surged. Those…
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A Story My Brother Marty Told Me
My brother Marty said that friends and family changed the way they talked to him when they heard he was seriously ill with cancer. Their tone was different; their concern and sorrow showed, and he longed for everyone to…