Month: September 1998
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Looks like my dad
I always wanted to have twins. Now I do. No this is not a major announcement. Those kinds of announcements are my daughter-in-law’s exclusive privilege these days. And, even though we have grandchildren expected at Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, neither of them is expecting twins. It would be nice. My father is an identical…
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Storing summer vegetables
In the hills of New York, where I was a child, gardens were made by kicking aside the rocks ad planting seeds. My grandfather always kept a patch out back of the house to hoe. I remember his fresh strawberries in the spring and sitting in Grandma’s kitchen scraping corn off the cob in the…
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ginger’s energy
The doctor had an effective bed-side manner. He diagnosed my brother with border-line diabetes, looked him in the eye and said, “lose the weight or lose your legs.” The doctor bluntly assured him, “You’ll be hungry for a long time. Live with it. And get some exercise. If you lose the weight, you probably won’t…
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Mel determines to always stand on two feet
The doctor had an effective bed-side manner. He diagnosed my brother with border-line diabetes, looked him in the eye and said, “lose the weight or lose your legs.” The doctor bluntly assured him, “You’ll be hungry for a long time. Live with it. And get some exercise. If you lose the weight, you probably won’t…