“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust, French novelist We once had a neighbor whose father served as a doctor in the Civil War. Yes, the Civil War. She was in her 90's when we met. Her father remarried after his first wife's death, had a daughter… Continue reading The way we were
Category: family life
No news, good news
"Let us go to an ordinary street to feel that life is beautiful with all the ordinary things, with cats around, with children playing, with laundries hanged out, with people wandering aimlessly!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish author and playwright Last evening, two of us went to a track meet in a small city in… Continue reading No news, good news
Eau de hot sock
"Smells like 'team' spirit." with sincere apology to Nirvana "Are you actually wearing that thing outside the house?" my husband asked with amusement. After many years of marriage, not much I do surprises him, but the fact I was walking out the door with a tube sock full of brown rice draped around my neck… Continue reading Eau de hot sock
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