Category Archives: A little history

~:: Words Fail Me ::~

Posted on March 20, 2011 by K

Okay, I’m going to talk about writing here for a minute, because I’m supposed to be writing a novel.  Right now.  As we speak. Because G is gone south with the boys to ride bikes in the red rock (not … Continue reading →

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~:: Just Saint Pat ::~

Posted on March 17, 2011 by K

One of the things I have actually known for sure in my life is that we were Irish.  I don’t remember when I first knew it, but I tasted it every day after that all through my young-in-family years.  Green … Continue reading →

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~:: How I Have Felt About Things ::~

Posted on February 18, 2011 by K

Long ago, somewhere just around the dawn of time, my mother gave me McCall’s Golden Do-it Book. It was this huge book of kids’ projects, and the very first chapter was “create with cast-offs.”  You were supposed to gather wooden … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Christmas, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things | Tagged , , , , , | 40 Comments

~:: discovery ::~

Posted on January 19, 2011 by K

Sorry.  I know I just poked you on the shoulder.  But I am sitting here, processing pages for my family photo books, (don’t you wish you could put links to former discussions into conversations with your man or mom or … Continue reading →

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~:: Take it again, from the top – ::~

Posted on December 12, 2010 by K

Ah, the time wings by, doesn’t it?  How can you “keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor’s household should,” and still have time to write about the experience? Here is the coolest possible thing in parenthood: when your grown up, single, … Continue reading →

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~;;~ Some Haunting Images ~;;~

Posted on October 31, 2010 by K

As I have mentioned before, my mom used to sew up our Halloween costumes.  I remember the cat one, which I loved, but I don’t remember any others; there might be movies of us on Halloween, but my parents weren’t … Continue reading →

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~;;~ game day and stormy weather: pt 1 ~;;~

Posted on October 24, 2010 by K

I have spent weeks now with the camera glued to my face.  But the storms have come in, and autumn leaves do not weather weather, so soon enough I’ll stop.  Will you hate it if I keep posting what I’ve … Continue reading →

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:: All Hallow’s Eve ::

Posted on October 21, 2010 by K

I’m in the way of writing about Halloween today.  I know I’ve written about it a little before, but today is such a gloriously gloomy sort of day, I’m just feelin’ it.  I love holidays.  I love the ones that … Continue reading →

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:: The Explanation ::

Posted on October 7, 2010 by K

My oldest daughter’s father-in-law is a crazy man.  When he was young, he stepped out of his life, joined the LDS church (alone of all his family), jumped on a motorcycle and took himself to Utah.  There, he went to … Continue reading →

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~o:> oh, camping, oh

Posted on August 1, 2010 by K

I think of myself as growing up in a Big Camping Family. I have slept on the ground with only an ancient sleeping bag between me and the rocks, on bouncy cots that turn over if you’re not careful, on … Continue reading →

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