Category Archives: Memories and Ruminations

~in just spring

Posted on May 11, 2009 by K

There was a time in my life when I believed in magic. (If you read this out loud, you must say the word – say “magic”—very softly, as though you are breathing it, and feeling the touch softly on your … Continue reading →

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Three gray old men walking

Posted on May 7, 2009 by K

Truth told, I never did pay much attention to Ludwig Wittkenstein, even after I’d seen Max Dugan Returns for the tenth time.  Until Sunday.  When he (not Dugan) showed up in Red and Rover and charmed my go-to-meetin’ socks off. … Continue reading →

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More slight significance

Posted on April 8, 2009 by K

And there was this time when I had been booked to be the key-note rock star author at a children’s literature conference in Oregon—they flew me there, met me with a shuttle.  Oh, yeah. “This way, Ms. Randle.”  And then … Continue reading →

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The oddness of small fame

Posted on April 6, 2009 by K

           One time when we went to the library, G overheard one librarian at the circulation say to another, “Kristen Randle just entered the building.”  (blink, blink – laugh).  That was back when I’d just been … Continue reading →

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Babysitting –

Posted on April 3, 2009 by K

  Through the looking glass: Gram is Scooter-sitting.            Don’t let these pictures fool you.  I am, at my very best, a reluctant babysitter. There was a time when I was willing to do it for … Continue reading →

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When we were small

Posted on March 19, 2009 by K

Yeah.  A long time ago now.  And all these kids gots kids.  Lots of ’em.

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Old Letters 2

Posted on March 9, 2009 by K

It’s a small pile of yellow, fragile letters.  One of them, from one of Nana’s suitors (written on Feb 5th, 1924) is deeply earnest: “Such a awful name but you’re a thief?! You stole my heart, and I feel miserable … Continue reading →

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Old letters 1

Posted on March 9, 2009 by K

I am a genealogist.  Well, a sort of lapsed one.  Like a person who isn’t shaking at the moment is a lapsed Malaria sufferer.  I suppose that someday I’m going to have to actually sit down and write about doing … Continue reading →

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Family

Posted on March 4, 2009 by K

When I was a kid, I had two sets of cousins—one set on my dad’s side, one on my mom’s. Except for one almost two year stint in Kansas City, we never lived anywhere close to our cousins. We were … Continue reading →

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The new addition –

Posted on February 17, 2009 by K

A few minutes ago, G announced cheerfully that today, M had been gone eight months!  Only he was wrong.  He had it wrong.  Nobody around here is allowed to round up anything relative to time passing—time is only what it actually … Continue reading →

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