Category: memoirs
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My Father’s Gardens: June 2023 Newsletter
My father, Homer Dale Willman, Sr., used to say, “When the Corps hired me, they took a great farmer and made him into a half-assed engineer.” Still, though he worked for over twenty years for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, my father always had a garden if only three strips around the patio. Until…
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A Father’s Day Remembrance
My Father’s Gardens, a Remembrance Typically, my gardens are puny things. Besides flowers, they usually include herbs like basil, mint, chives, parsley, and occasionally a tomato plant in pots on our patio. But my father’s gardens were often superb. My father, Homer Dale Willman, Sr., used to say, “When the Corps hired me, they took…
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“New China Special”
In “New China Special,” a Memoir of a Marriage, a brief, intimate piece that combines personal memoir with creative nonfiction, a mother shares with her child a series of vignettes – all related to Chinese restaurants in some way – about events that occurred before the child was born or not old enough to remember.…