Tag: remembering
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Remember Not To Forget
An always popular party motif is remembering when. Dressing up according to a bygone era, finding clothes that reflect a time that’s only a memory for some, history for others. When Isley came by to show us her 80’s outfit, I was struck by how she’d managed to mimic the fashion of that decade. Google […]
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What Is Worth Remembering?
As a child, the day heralded the approach of summer and the end of school. It was a day where we had neighborhood picnics and went to a parade where I didn’t pay much attention to who was marching but who was throwing candy. We also visited the cemetery, which felt ghastly as a child. […]
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When Memories Mix With Free Enterprise
When I was a child, I thought I knew the significance of Memorial Day. Honoring dead people. Because Mom was a first-generation American, with parents from Germany, she faithfully carried on the tradition of visiting the grave sites of family who’d passed on. Not just those who died in war. Cemeteries creeped me out. Little […]
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