Tag: nostalgia
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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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St. Valentine’s Day 1900
A Kansas City newspaper suggested an avian theme for Valentine’s Day parties in February 1900 like the one described below. Minty stepped back from the dining room table that she’d just finished setting with Mama’s best china in the rose pattern . . . A pair of turtledoves made of stuffed cotton and feathers hung…
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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.…
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A Special Memory for Throwback Thursday
One afternoon back in my mid-teen years, I was home alone in the apartment when I heard a car honking outside. When I rushed to the window and looked out, I saw a Chevy like this one pulled up to the curb. Right away my mom and dad got out. I didn’t realize it then,…