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Looking back
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
I guess as we live longer we forget things and I am guilty of this. I meant to write an anniversary post last month but with somethings going on in my life I just forgot. Looking back over the year that I have been blogging it has been times of frustration, [...]
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How old is grandpa
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Since you are reading this, it means you have a computer. It also means you get tons of e-mail from spam to things that touch the heart and the funny bone.
One such e-mail came to me this week and I have been chuckling about it for days. The title was: [...]
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Grandmas. You Gotta love Them!
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Most African Americans are a mixture of many races. My family is no exception.
My maternal Grandmother was African American, American Indian (Tuscarora), and Chinese. She was short, thin, wiry, and had waist length hair. She was very quiet and even as a child I realized there were some strange ways about her. She was my [...]
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Southern Love 60’s Style
Friday, January 9th, 2009
I never throw anything away. I am a pack rat and its genetics passed on from my mother. She would find things in stores and bring them home even if no one in our house could use it. Case in point. There were some dresses she brought home after shopping one day. They were too [...]
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Retirement is for the birds
Friday, January 9th, 2009
I can’t believe it! This March it will be five years since I stopped struggling out of bed at 9:45pm to get to work at 11:00pm. No more working long, cold nights on wards poorly staffed while being underpaid and under appreciated. But I miss it and would give up fighting Medicare [...]