Tag Archives: Thanksgiving

~:: The Tiniest Family Thanksgiving ::~

Posted on November 27, 2013 by K

Okay.  So life gets very complicated when your children grow up and start marrying people, and by default, the other people’s families.  Once it was just no big deal, filling up the places at the table. I can remember, both … Continue reading →

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~:: Gratitude ::~

Posted on January 1, 2013 by K

Where I’ve been. Assuming anybody is still there, remembering me and wondering. Snow on the ground. Fire in the sky. I haven’t been on-line at all for weeks (read: months) except for occasional bouts of Facebook—the conversational equivalent of Twinkies—when … Continue reading →

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~:: Turkey Day ::~

Posted on November 29, 2011 by K

My mom used to have these candles she’d put out on the dining room table at Thanksgiving, small, chibi-like wax pilgrims wearing an odd, light, translucent shade of brown.  And there was this fat, round turkey made of some kind … Continue reading →

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~:: A little more about thanks ::~

Posted on December 2, 2010 by K

For me, when I can’t get to the  keyboard to write, it’s like having to sneeze in the middle of a solemn assembly.  But when I can sit down and start pounding the keys, the relief my fingers give me … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, holidays, Images, Just talk, Knit Stuff, Making Things | Tagged , , , , , | 21 Comments

Posted on November 7, 2010 by K

That thing?  That <:)B thing?  It’s supposed to be a turkey.  Yeah.  I’m really good at this keyboard art biz – .  Home, on the couch, nursing a felty throat. In answer  to and in solidarity with a few other … Continue reading →

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A Little Thanks

Posted on November 29, 2008 by K

Some years ago, I opened my soul to a person I had thought of as a very good friend: “At the very first sense of chill in the evening air, the very first whisper of Autumn, do you find yourself … Continue reading →

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