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Mom

nobody@vox.com(hp) — Sun, 13 May 2007 09:23:31 -0700

My mom passed away in 1993, but she is with me in spirit today (and every day).

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Mom and Me, 1958

nobody@vox.com(hp) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:24:46 -0800

In digging through a rather unorganized pile of family photos yesterday I uncovered this. It required a lot of scratch and dust removal, but turned out great. Such a lovely photo of my mom. I've put together another iPhoto book for my Dad, thi...

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When Women Wore Dresses

nobody@vox.com(hp) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:28:44 -0800

In case it isn't obvious from my recent posts, I've been busy scanning in family photographs. Right now I'm working on photos mostly from the 50s and 60s. What strikes me is how lovely the women look, when dresses were de rigueur . It makes me wa...

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Tiny knitting

nobody@vox.com(hp) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:42:15 -0800

I helped organize a weekly knitting circle at work, which has turned out to be a lot of fun. My colleague Jill and I are helping to teach some non-knitters to knit and we also bring in some "inspirational" materials - a pattern book, a completed ...

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Today is my mom's birthday

nobody@vox.com(hp) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:25:24 -0700

Today, my mom would have been 76. Each year Drake and I celebrate this day by having her birthday dinner. My mom always wanted the same thing every year: hamburgers on the grill, fresh tomatoes from the garden, and corn on the cob (which we bou...

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Happy August 1st!

nobody@vox.com(hp) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:07:26 -0700

My mom treated every first of the month as a holiday, greeting us in the morning with "Happy [whatever month] 1st!". Though she is always in my thoughts, the first of the month brings special memories of her first-of-the-month greeting.

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