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55"...CALL ME MAXINE" Part 3
I have written this series of excerpts from my journal, as a humble effort to honor my mother on Mothers Day. I have concentrated on the bond between mother and daughter, because I am a daughter; but let me...
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55"...CALL ME MAXINE" Part 2
"...SOMETIMES DREAMS ARE WISER THAN WAKING." ---Black Elk, Oglala Sioux, ca. 1932 September 15, 2000 I dreamt that Mother died. It was after the funeral and I was in her house, surrounded by family...
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58MY NAME IS STELLA, BUT CALL ME MAXINE
FOREWORD My mother had dementia, and although she never forgot our names and faces, she sometimes had trouble distinguishing one family member from another. She was unable to stay in the present, and was...
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64MY IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
"Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Who said that? My mother for one. She believed those words, lived by them, and used them often to get her point across when things did not meet her standards. Her home was...
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56TRIBAL LESSONS
Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a Sunday school teacher. My class consisted of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18...a difficult demographic for any teacher. Teaching was not my "calling" in...
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77DO NOT GET YOUR FISH DRUNK OR FLICK YOUR BOOGERS IN THE WIND
Do not get your fish drunk, or flick your boogers in the wind, especially if you live in Ohio or Alabama. Believe it or not these are actual laws still on the books. I doubt that they are enforced, at least...
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74TRAINING LULU THE SHIH TZU
Ah...puppies. I love puppies... sweet, cuddley, balls of fur...energetic roly-poly clowns ...nature's perfection...until they squat and pee on my new carpet. After thirty years of raising children (four of...
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66HOW FAST ARE ARE YOU GOING?
I would like to stop and smell the roses...lay in the grass and watch the clouds float past...sit and listen to the wind speak to me. But Old Man Time is picking up speed...streaking through the years...
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