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family history

• daughters, family history

  Heirloom To-mah-toes

  06.12.11 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  The other night when I intoned my daughter’s full name in the you’re-in-big-trouble-Missie voice, my mother was there, and she said, “So that‘s why you gave her my name.” And I had to admit that there is something satisfying about emphasizing Avery Danielle when my ten-year old has committed some egregious crime of ten-year-oldness. Danielle [...]

• Being Mormon, family history, grandparents, personal history

  If only the gaps in my knowledge were so easily filled

  02.21.11 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Everyone came over for dinner last night. Usually every third week it’s my parents and their kids and grandkids at our house for Sunday dinner. Tonight both sets of my grandparents wanted to see my dad’s recovery for themselves. (He has cancer, he’s getting aggressive treatment, and he’s looking good since shaving his off-work-for-surgery beard–and [...]