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personal history

• 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 [...]

• personal history

  Lessons from My Father-in-law: A Story of Farm Animals and Utter Gentlemanliness

  11.28.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  This Thanksgiving we’ve been blessed with a visit from Dick’s dad. We haven’t seen any of Dick’s family since we moved from Florida last August, and we miss them all, almost as much as the beach and Habana Cafe. Dick’s family was not the big Mormon family I’d always hoped to marry in to. They [...]

• blogging, personal history

  For my own personal history

  09.11.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Memarie Lane has a great post today about how most of us are bit players (if not Kleenex-disposable extras) in the big scheme of life. That’s why (because I agree, not because of her post) I wasn’t going to write some grandiose “Where were you?” post about September 11th. Wasn’t going to say that we [...]

• Family, Jane, personal history

  The Searing Truth: A Memoir

  03.11.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  After all the flap about fraudulent autobiographies (holocaust faker, addict exaggerator, gang survivor wanna-be), I’ve decided to write my own memoirs. It (they?) might be extremely boring, but I promise to be truthful, and really, why would you ever prefer a good story to The Truth? Here’s my story of shame and degradation, humiliation and [...]