I’ve written many times about photographs taken from my childhood or from my children’s childhood. When I was young, black and white snapshots were still the norm. My grandfather got a color camera sometime while I was still a toddler, but my dad didn’t get one of those snazzy new […]
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Swapping Kids in Madras, Oregon
In response to my last email newsletter, one reader wrote me about how her family regularly switched children from parents to grandparents for visits. That reminded me of how my family did the same when I was growing up. The childhood swaps I remember best were in Madras, Oregon. Madras, […]
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I’m a Grandmother!
Over the past many months, one thing I have not written about was my soon-to-be status as a grandmother. My daughter had a baby last week—my first grandchild. I can’t post a picture, nor reveal the child’s name, because I have promised my daughter I would not do so without […]
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Perfect Christmases
When I think of my childhood Christmases, I think of going to my grandparents’ home in Klamath Falls, Oregon. They moved out of that house when I was six or seven, and some of my earliest Christmases were spent at my home rather than traveling to my grandparents’ house. So […]
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Happy Birthday to My Daughter, and Memories of the Last Family Graduation
My daughter doesn’t appreciate most of the posts about her on this blog, but today is her birthday, and so I am thinking about her. Her birthday is in May, and most of her graduations have been in May, so there have been many May celebrations in her honor. Today […]
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I Wore a Skirt to Santa’s Village, But I Wouldn’t Wear One Now
When my brother and I visited our grandparents in Pacific Grove, California, they always took us on a day trip to Santa’s Village outside Santa Cruz. Santa’s Village was a miniature Disneyland with a Christmas theme. Even though it was the middle of summer, we could sit on Santa’s lap […]
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Random Photos: A Summer Trip with the Grandparents in Simpler Times
This set of random photos came from an envelope my father labeled “Cannon Beach.” Most of the pictures in the envelope were of a trip my parents took with my kids to Cannon Beach, Oregon. I’ve written before about other trips to Cannon Beach—most recently we were there for a […]
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High School Graduations Through Two Generations
Recently, a relative sent my husband a picture of his high school graduation day. I’d never seen this photo before. My husband is the tall young man in the red robe—the color of the Marshall High School Owls. He graduated in 1967—more than fifty years ago. My husband probably thought […]
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My Christmas in California
I only spent one Christmas at my maternal grandparents’ home in Pacific Grove, California. That was in 1965 when I was nine. I seem to recall many Christmases with these grandparents in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where they lived before they moved to Pacific Grove in about 1962. But in fact, […]
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Memories of Thanksgiving and My Paternal Grandparents
Thanksgiving is behind us now, but just barely. I was thinking this past holiday weekend about my paternal grandparents. When I was growing up, we spent more time with my mother’s parents than my father’s, but we often did spend Thanksgiving with my paternal grandparents. As a small child, I […]
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