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72Iphigenia
Daughters are an extreme blessing. I really feel pity and sorrow for a mother with only sons. We have four daughters and three sons. The old saying that "A son is a son until he takes wife. A Daughter is a...
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65What is a Curmudgeon?
Previous email: "You know that I didn't get one response from my "Curmudgeon" email. I found that rather disappointing! I suppose that means that everyone thought I was serious and they must agree with you. I...
0 comments65My Cousin
My Cousin. I was sent to Tuscaloosa, AL when I was 11 years old, 1951, to spend my summer with my mother's older sisters. Now both of these sisters were senior nurses at Bryce Hospital. Bryce Hospital...
0 comments61My Friend Bob Hobbs
My war veteran friend and Master Mason, Bob Hobbs. It would be hard to describe Bob to someone; but let me attempt the impossible. Imagine a human Popeye; he walked and talked like Popeye. The same cocky...
0 comments60Growing Old
John Denver's song "Some days are diamonds, some days are stones" says it all. I think that the hardest thing about growing old is having to give up things that represent freedom for you. Babies expend a...
2 comments59Why I am not Christian!
Why I am not Christian! For my Mormon friends, I am a Lamanite; uncircumcised of heart. For everyone else, what that means is I carry a very hard hatred in my heart for ALL religions. When a person accepts...
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60END OF RACISM in America
First, take a white woman, 2nd generation German, marrying a man, American Indian; when it was illegal in Alabama to be American Indian. Then conceiving a male child. Push that child through WWII, and '50s of...
3 comments56Message In A Bottle
I think that someone once said that "Our children are like messages in a bottle and that we toss them on the ocean of time and space." So here is my additional message To My Daughters and Grand Daughters: Be...
0 comments56Adventures Abroad
Several years ago, around Christmas time 1971, I was sitting in the Grand Hotel in Hiroshima watching Japanese schools kids do callisthenics in the snow. My boss, in New Orleans, calls me and tells me to get...
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54Forget Not the Bride of thy Youth
Forget not the bride of thy youth. I met my bride over sixty years ago, at a duck pond near a library on Gentilly Blvd; near the Fox Movie theater on Elysian Fields. Flaming red hair, sparkling green eyes, a...
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