Monthly Archives: June 2008

Teenage farm hands (and younger)

Posted on June 27, 2008 by jottingjoan

My parents practiced hands-off parenting. While my mother helped my dad with the evening milking on the family dairy farm, she would look across the yard into the mirror on the wall behind the piano in the living room. She … Continue reading →

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Off to the Babylonian University without parents

Posted on June 20, 2008 by jottingjoan

Such a celebration of feelings we experience watching our children graduate from 12 years of schooling, ready to leave home, to go to college, to tackle life on their own. The diploma and their age declare our sweet babies have … Continue reading →

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This car will just have to do

Posted on June 13, 2008 by jottingjoan

For many, many years, my friend has prepared a homemade Sunday dinner as her gift of love for her family. The list of possible guests has grown from children to grandchildren and now great-grandchildren. Not all can make it every … Continue reading →

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Now that scared me!

Posted on June 5, 2008 by jottingjoan

I don’t scare easily. In grade school, I heard absolutely dreadful things would happen if this or that person received the national nod to be our president. Horrors! If that man was elected, we would have to go to school … Continue reading →

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