For Aidan: Traditions©

Dear Aidan,  Thank you for such a wonderful letter. It was so well written. I am so proud of your handwriting and the beautiful sentences you wrote.  You asked me to write you about traditions in our family.  So I will write you about one that took place at our house, one you took an [...]

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Jimmy Lee, The Story of an Outlaw©

“He’s such a beautiful baby.  He looks like you and he looks like Ben,” I noted. “He just woke up and he seems to be coming to…out of his sleep, a very short nap.  You know it’s a real fine line between crying and laughing…he just wants to laugh but because he’s so groggy from nap time he falls [...]

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The Clock©

The key never moved.  It’s amazing to me how in a house of four kids and two busy parents the key was never lost, misplaced or mysteriously disappeared during our weekly routine or the moves to different states.  Usually the key lay on the mantel under the clock or was carefully placed inside the back [...]

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