tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46900250076616657782024-03-13T05:34:31.289-05:00Mary Pfeiffer's Musings and MeanderingsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04296833158029475220noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690025007661665778.post-24561826501691240742013-07-13T12:12:00.000-05:002013-07-15T10:03:25.237-05:00Appreciating Successes—at Writing and Hostessing<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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July midday with bottomless glasses of iced tea, dressed salad greens, and
fruit too ripe to need sweetening. Temps were already sweltering when I walked
up the driveway, but inside, settled into deep chairs with a view of a shaded
deck, we were coolly removed from Texas’s sizzling heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Instead of this writing group meeting at the usual
restaurant, Lolisa offered her home for lunch. When she invited me, she asked me
to bring the newly printed memoir that I edited for my father. They wanted to
see someone else’s stories, collected, titled, and hardcover bound, proof that regular
people can “publish” their ordinary family histories. Something I’ve pushed
them to do since hearing their first efforts in our Memoir Writing class. Collected
scraps and sheets of anecdotes become important enough to share with family
when assembled into a <i>real</i> book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Uncle Burton, a Lt. Colonial in
General Patton’s Tank Corp and … with Patton in the final push into Germany
near the end of the war [was] stationed in Selb, one of the towns where
Rosenthal china was made. My uncle was
able to buy two complete sets of dishes.
One set for his wife and one set for his sister, my mother. We eagerly waited for Mother’s set to
come. They were off-white with a gold
etched band, and I thought they were the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.<br /> <br />In my small West Texas hometown
located ten miles from the corner with New Mexico, I don’t remember anyone
having a grand set of dishes.*</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She continued with how her mother used the dozen
place settings, her “good” dishes, for special occasions Eventually, Lolisa, promoted
to dishwasher for the demitasse cups and saucers because, she wrote, it was in pre-automatic
dishwasher days. That set of china from German has now passed down to Lolisa. Her
dishwasher stands ready, but she still hand washes them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Even without knowing the story, we would have oohed
and aahed over her table. Wide gold-banded dinner plates, teacups so delicate
as to feel weightless set on a flowered cloth that seemed part of the garden
centerpiece. From where I sat, my eyes kept going to decorative plates hung
among watercolor paintings over the buffet. Also gold banded, centered with
flowers, they looked custom coordinated to the china. I asked but Lolisa said,
“No,” she had the decorative plates long before inheriting Mother’s china. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Perhaps she will add a page to her story, telling
where and how she acquired the wall hangings. Someday another generation will
have that to tell when hosting a summer luncheon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Besides my show and tell with <i>The Book</i>, as Lolisa called my dad’s memoir, we had reason to
celebrate. The newest member is a finalist at the upcoming <a href="http://journalism.unt.edu/mayborn-literary-nonfiction-conference" target="_blank">Mayborn Nonfiction Literary Conference</a>. Her first conference, her first entry, and she hit a home
run. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We’re sure we all heard Mona’s shout when she
received the congratulatory email at 10:47 Tuesday evening. She phoned me
Wednesday morning still gasping and giggling between near tears. That’s what
hearing you’ve written something that is judged a success does to a writer. At
least neophyte ones. I wonder how many times Nicholas Sparks, or Hemingway for
that matter, heard, “We want to publish it,” before either treated the
announcement like another day at the office. Family matters prevented Mona’s
joining the lunch group, so we toasted her success in her absence, each of us
recalling portions of the story she submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Adding to the glee over Mona’s success, <a href="http://marypf.blogspot.com/2013/07/more-to-add-in-fewer-years-repeated.html" target="_blank">Pat announcedthat her Beghtel Berries</a> tales is at
the publisher. Good news can be shared anywhere, but it seems even more special
in a setting of fine china with tinkling crystal accompanying the chatter of
friends who support and encourage one another’s efforts. And perhaps, that
storybook setting sent us all home inspired to further writing efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">*</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Laenger,
Lolisa, “</span>The Good Dishes.”<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 115%;">When
a writer in my <a href="http://www.collin.edu/ce/courses/creative_writing.html" target="_blank">Memoir Writing class at CollinCollege</a><a href="http://www.collin.edu/ce/courses/creative_writing.html" target="_blank"> </a>invited me to her 70th birthday party, I decided I like the
way 70 looks. Afterwards, she wrote her
thoughts about stepping into a new decade, thoughts so profound that I asked if
I could share them on this blog. Perhaps
we each should look at our decades to find where we stand and if, like Pat
Mahle, we are looking forward to the abundance that lies ahead. Thank you, Pat,
for showing us a way to reflect on the decades of our lives.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">S E V E N T Y </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 is a number
of great magnitude and consequence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It can only be
divided by 1 or 10. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 in the
periodic table is a rare element, <b><i>ytterbium</i></b>, used in atomic
clocks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The law says
the copyright lasts 70 years then belongs to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Astronomy used
the number 70 for the first important eclipse.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The followers
of Yahweh used the number 70 to pass on life-giving myths: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 nations and
70 world languages form the core of Jewish tradition. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 men make up
the Great Sanhedrin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 elders were
assembled by Moses at God’s command.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">LXX, the Roman
numeral, is the symbol for Septuagint. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jesus appointed
70 disciples and sent them to preach liberation and justice for all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jesus said,
“Forgive 70 times seven.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 years is 7
decades and in that time I’ve had at least 7 bodies of good work: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The discovery
of walking, talking, living and learning in community. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The work of
finding myself in the mist of the tribe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The creation of
a life-giving covenant with Jerry; together unearthing the awareness that our
covenant is as crucial as either of us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The wonder of
new creation and the task of helping children find their own wings. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The dreamlike
role of giving unconditional love to grandchildren. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The opportunity
to share the mystery of love and grace and the task of blessing others because
God loves us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The work of
mentoring, guiding, and becoming a wise woman.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Along the way I
have receive at least 7 gifts:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Six siblings
who gave me love, belonging, encouragement, and laughter that made me want my
own wings. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My rock, Jerry
who encourages and challenges me to become true to myself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those I call
friends who have changed me, loved me, and make life worth living. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The enjoyment
of nature’s beauty with its sunrises and sets, its new growth pushing through
the earth and giving up its harvest, its night sky that puts all of life in
perspective and makes me ask the question, “Who am I in the vastness of the
universe?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The discovery
of new places to explore, new residences to call home, and new people to
encounter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Communities
that push me beyond the claim of my origin and do so with love and grace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The gift of
knowing I am not alone, that I live in God’s world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The gift of 70
is so rare the French don’t have a word for it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The eastern
cultures of China, Japan, and Korea call 70 the Rare Age of the Golden Times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 is
significant to me; I have fewer years ahead than are behind. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But with the
gifts discovered, and bodies of work accomplished, even more lies ahead to add
to the abundance of love and grace I have received. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.firstmethodistplano.org/pages/2010_Staff_Pastors" target="_blank">Pat Beghtel Mahle</a>, 2012</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Mix a bit of research with reflection and
tell us what your current decade means to you.
What accomplishments stand out in your mind? What are you looking forward to in your next
decade?</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My daughter's blog today reminds me not to take this holiday for granted. I'm proud to share her thoughts with you here.</span></span></div>
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Memorial Day 2013<br />by Leticia Pfeiffer, <a href="http://www.styledandorganizedliving.com/" target="_blank">Styled and Organized Living</a></h3>
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<span style="color: #797979; font-family: 'Hoefler Text'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.<b> </b></span><span style="color: #797979; font-family: 'Hoefler Text'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Officially proclaimed by General Logon on 5 May 1868, “Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.”</span><span style="color: #797979; font-family: 'Hoefler Text'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There’s a history of military service in my family going back to the Civil War. My dad along with <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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his childhood friend, Walter LeKites III, aka Dubby, served in Viet Nam. My Grandfather served in WWII. I have childhood friends who served in Desert Storm & during a time of peace. Friend’s dads served as well. All in different branches. They all came home.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My senior year in high school, my close friend lost her brother, Charlie, in an Army helicopter tragedy after he & his buddy got everyone off. Another close friend lost her cousin, Matt, in Iraq while on a mission to rescue others. Both heroes. Both greatly missed. There are too many more nameless to me but family to others who gave their lives. To all I am grateful.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You too can probably start to make a list of those you know who have served your country...our country. Take time today to respectfully honor their service. The "<a href="http://www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/President/may0200.txt"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">National Moment of Remembrance</span></a>" asks that at 3 p.m. your local time you voluntarily & informally observe in your own way a moment of remembrance & respect, pausing from whatever you are doing for a moment of silence or listening to '<a href="http://www.usmemorialday.org/taps.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Taps</span></a>."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s the least we can do to remember those who gave.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Note: Let me add another picture that my daughter did not have, her grandfather. Though the 1944 photo is blurry, this veteran at 92 is still hale and hearty. We thank him for his service.</span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span>Teaching Memoir classes lets me hear the treasures class members write. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.styledandorganizedliving.com/" target="_blank">Styled and Organized Living</a></i> business
is taking off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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daily multi-mile walks shame my pitiful exercise routine. He turns a vigorous
92 this month. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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#1 and favorite son-in-law juggle a middle-schooler plus 2 girls with drivers’
licenses, and make their home Teen Central to friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writing group inspires, encourages, and guides my writing efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10<sup>th</sup> year, my widow(er) group shared my church Christmas concert
before gathering at my home to celebrate the season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sunday School class members race comfort to whichever one of us needs to be
surrounded by love and prayers.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DqFOF99Ng6k/UNDFMtcgrWI/AAAAAAAAALs/WvvOuRX56lk/s1600/Samaantha+%2526+medals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: #660000;"><img alt="Granddaughter in choir robe with 3 medals" border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DqFOF99Ng6k/UNDFMtcgrWI/AAAAAAAAALs/WvvOuRX56lk/s200/Samaantha+%2526+medals.jpg" title="Granddaughter #1 with medals" width="93" /></span></a></td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Proud Moments (or bragging
rights) </span></i></h3>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Three
granddaughters are turning out to be runners (like their grandpa and great
grandfather). Two made it to State in the fall; the third was 1st in her middle
school. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Between
track and basketball, Granddaughter #1 squeezed in the Iowa State Choir, her
3rd year to be selected. This proud grandma was in Ames <i>(see Just Plain Fun below)</i> to hear the 1000 top Iowa voices and
instrumentalists in concert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Daughter
#2 turns out a weekly blog and daily Facebook/Twitter tips <i>(see Blessing #3)</i> while her writer mom struggles for one blog per month—at
best. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><u><a href="http://silverboomerbooks.com/" target="_blank">On Our Own: Widowhood for Smarties</a></u></i>, a Silver Boomers book published in
October, included my story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sis-in-law visited US from her residence in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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friends in Delaware housed me while we remembered good times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Sorrows Laced with Joy</span></i></h3>
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shared a 72nd Valentine’s Day with Mother before she slipped away from us late
that night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->While a
chorus of our younger generation sang Mother’s hymns at her funeral, I
discovered that Granddaughter #1 has her great grandmother’s natural alto voice
<i>(see Proud Moments #2)</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In January
and February, friend Kathy buried both parents, the parents who made room for
me at their family table more times than I can count. Our Thanksgiving table
shared both our Mothers’ best recipes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">50th
Class Reunion consensus: if we can still recognize one another, we can’t be
that old.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">Van-Far Class of '62 Reunion</span></td></tr>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On
flight to Iowa <i>(see Proud Moment #2)</i>,
I missed 2 planes, lost my driver’s license, discovered that I had daughter’s
driver’s license and credit/ATM cards in my purse (leaving her broke and
ID-less), . . . and knew it would be a
funny story—much later. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #660000; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝";"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wishing you blessings, proud moments,
renewals, and fun in 2013. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or How Long Can I Hold My Breath?</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There’s a question I’ve been meaning to ask my dad. It’s been on my mind since the <i>I now pronounce you…</i> part of each daughter’s wedding. That moment when I let out my breath, whispered in a new son-in-law’s ear, “She hates tomatoes and kicks in her sleep,” and bequeathed my glue gun and leftover sequins to a new drill team mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It started as a catch breath while they delivered their first speaking part, “<i>Lo, a star</i>,” in the Christmas pageant. Then every difficult fingering passage at piano recitals found me waiting, breathless. By the time #1 auditioned for a scholarship, one lungful made it all the way through a sonata. When their father answered that <i>who gives her in marriage </i>question, I looked forward to never needing a deep breath again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Three grandchildren later, I’m still doing it. Last week, Daughter #2 met Hurricane Sandy head on during a business trip to NYC. I alternated between texting hourly weather reports—as though she couldn’t look out the window to see water, wind, and the crane dangling on the next block—and calling to see if she was keeping her cell phone charged.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Being stranded by a hurricane wasn’t the first time she put herself into events parents can’t control. Last year, volcanic ash grounded her in Paris and then London. Her text messages reassured me that she had a hotel room. I needed to hear that the shopping those cities offered wouldn’t cause disaster to her bank account before skies cleared for air traffic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before that, when 9/11 stopped all flying, she managed to be waiting for a return flight from a Caribbean resort. I was more concerned about her passport, clearly marked <i>born in the Mideast,</i> than I was about how soon planes would take off. My fear was well founded. Through the next four years, officials stamped her every boarding pass for a thorough security search. She eased my worry. She told me that batting her baby blues got her through pat downs quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This series of being in the wrong place during travel crises started when she became snowbound on the way home from a visit to her fiancé. All roads along the route closed, food in the over full hotel ran low, and her college professors threatened failing grades when she </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">alerted them to her “extended spring break.” I fretted about whether three days sharing a single hotel room with her future in-laws would help or hinder the marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I understand that all parents suffer through our offsprings’ rites of passage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Apparently, my mother worried through the two years my young husband and I lived in Africa. She told me several years after we returned [safely] home that she had been afraid something dire would happen to us and she would have to fly to the Dark Continent to claim two babies who didn’t know their grandmother. (The flying was as problematic as being a stranger to <o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">grand babies.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While they didn't have to rescue grandbabies, they did rush to Texas to help me following my husband’s sudden death. They were sure they would be taking me “home” with them—until they met the twenty-five years of friends I have here. They returned home alone, but I noticed their visits became more frequent, I supposed to satisfy themselves that I was OK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That question I have been meaning to ask my dad is about when he and my mother quit holding their breath. Maybe I can remember to do that the next time he makes a visit to check on me.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/sports/cycling/armstrong-stripped-of-his-7-tour-de-france-titles.html?ref=todayspaper" target="_blank">Headline is a written page of his life</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TV talked in the
background—<a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/22/cycling-body-to-rule-on-lance-armstrongs-tour-de-france-wins/?iref=storysearch" target="_blank">Armstrong Stripped of Wins</a>; <a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/19/iconic-big-tex-burns/?iref=allsearch" target="_blank">Big Tex Ends StateFair in Fiery Demise</a>—as we settled onto
comfy chairs at our writing group’s favorite <a href="http://www.paradisebakery.com/" target="_blank">restaurant</a>. We shared dismay over both
front-page situations, but those stories were finished pieces. We met to work
on stories in progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Near the bottom of my
second cup of coffee, a stranger passing by asked if we were writers. Yes, even
published writers. The stranger said he had written a book and added that he
was the famous (infamous?) Lance’s adopted dad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I claim my own
connections to that celebrity: one time <a href="http://marypf.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html" target="_blank">English teacher</a> and neighbor. Since my
father raised doubting, but not gullible, daughters, I vetted this man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Where did Lance go to
middle school? What street did he live on?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Correct answers to
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The conversation was
on. Or rather his story, the other side of the story we’ve all heard and read
in the half dozen books about America’s cyclist—from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lance-Armstrong/e/B001H6SCX8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1" target="_blank">Lance's own autobiography</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">,</span> to his mother’s version, to one written for 2<sup>nd</sup>
graders for a <a href="http://bicycling.about.com/od/professionalcycling/tp/Lance-Armstrong-Books.htm" target="_blank">“CharacterBuilders Series.“</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A new telling, written
by this father, the father the cyclist claims is “deceitful,” could be the next
big read. Every skirmish has two sides. This one is no different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To hear Dad
Armstrong’s version, he pounded the pavement as a salesman to afford his wife
and son every expensive, and desired, toy—including membership to a country
club with an ambitious swim team. By the time Lance reached a double-digit age,
he and friends were butterflying and lightning-stroking their team to
victories. The dad confessed that writing revealed to himself the <i>ah-ha</i> truths
that we all wish we had known when younger. It’s a story of a parent’s “what if's.” <i>What if the family had continued church attendance? What if the dad had
seen the danger in too young celebrity?</i> In hearing Monday’s death knell, we
thought of “what if’s.” <i>What if he
had come in 7th or 17th in France? Would his cancer survival have been less
inspiring?</i><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even with new insight,
this dad’s book won’t change the outcome. It might be met with disinterested
shrugs, or his story might let us recognize pivotal choices that could have
changed a future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cycling’s governing
body has chosen to say that the Armstrong Era never officially happened. Their
edict will erase him from the record books, but it won’t erase his life—good or
bad. Thousands of stories in multiple languages have permanently preserved it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P1nI2DiQEIk/UIcUE-gPRoI/AAAAAAAAAJE/EXuQiEQjqXs/s1600/writing+in+book.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Hand writing in book" border="0" height="94" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P1nI2DiQEIk/UIcUE-gPRoI/AAAAAAAAAJE/EXuQiEQjqXs/s200/writing+in+book.png" title="We must write down our stories to keep them." width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We must write down <br />
our stories to keep them.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rest of us, whose lives are not the stuff of newspaper stories, haven’t
such tangible sources to leave behind. We have to depend on our own photos in
albums. (Photos that sometimes raise more questions than they answer. <i>Where was this taken? Who are those people? What
was happening?</i>) Or oral recountings. (that are forgotten or changed in the
retellings). Unless someone—ourselves—writes them down, our stories remain “I
wonder if’s.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometime ago, I committed
to paper my family’s saga of burying our cat—the favorite story that is recited
to every captive newcomer to the family. A sister challenged my story’s accuracy.
Her version would have paid our brother a dime for the burying deed while I
recorded the payment as a quarter. She’s probably right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Without details written on the timeline of your life, the question of a
dime or a quarter can’t be asked. Because no one will know the story, that a
little brother was paid once by big sisters to bury the cat three times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Consider what you wish you knew
about your grandfather. About Great aunt Gertrude or your pioneer relative born
during the 1800’s. Think about the tales
slipping away today as your parents grow older. What stories do your children
not know about the early days of your marriage—stories you need to get down
quickly before they are forgotten as though they never happened? For a start,
try simply listing the topics of those stories. Share them with us here.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04296833158029475220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690025007661665778.post-89225001248892004832012-10-22T10:00:00.000-05:002012-10-22T12:06:20.668-05:00Publishing Makes Memoirs Permanent<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What do you gift your </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Writing Group friend who’s
celebrating the same birth year as Paula Abdul and Demi Moore?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Definitely not the tacky yard
signs and black streamers popular when those of us hailing from the same decade
as Cinderella and Pinocchio reached our mid-century mark.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Something
special, of course, but what? While I waited for an idea to surface, Mary came
up with the perfect idea. <i>(Not this
blogger, The Other Mary of the writing group that still wants a name)</i> She
suggested that we publish the honoree’s memoirs. A celebration of her writings;
an encouragement to write more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That set
us on a two-month romp to gather the stories—surreptitiously—edit, and print. Emails
flew: <i>Has anyone edited this story? Who
has the “skipping school” story? What about the book title</i>?<i> Did she really write that? <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Artistic
Jan painted the childhood home from one story. Mary’s Alan photographed other Louisiana
locales. Tina—while rocking newborn Alex—penned the jacket blurb that rivals any
I read in my favorite bookstore. I contributed my singular talent by writing a
foreword. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://www.blurb.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Blurb logo" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2kGdSGjHpig/UIVxOchs-9I/AAAAAAAAAIc/5cZhig6Vdfg/s1600/Blurb.png" title="Make Your Own Book with Blurb" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blurb.com/" target="_blank"><i>Blurb</i> published <br />"Snakes</a>"</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We left
the work of matching pictures to stories, designing the layout, and printing to
The Other Mary. Nearing the birthday party date, she teased us with an emailed
look at the cover. Then she did a reveal that rivaled HGTV in <i>oohs</i> and <i>ahs</i>. The following two-week wait for the celebration was worse than
a kid anticipating Christmas. And <i>we</i>
were <i>giving</i> the gift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Feeling
like seven-year-olds presenting plaster-of-Paris paperweights on Mother’s Day,
we prepared ourselves for the probability that presents wouldn’t be opened
during the party. Nevertheless, we placed The Gift strategically and hovered
nearby, our body language shouting, “Open mine; open mine.” She did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seeing
her eyes cloud with near tears, we swallowed lumps. As the book was passed
around and old school friends, subjects of some of the stories, proudly claimed
knowledge of a tale, we nodded understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
recently read a pundit’s opinion that birthdays beyond age 20 no longer need
cake and candles. Last year, I blogged that every birthday need not be
celebrated like a Roman holiday. Both ideas may be true, but when you come across
that perfect gift, the occasion merits a full-out Mardi Gras affair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Beyond
the warm fuzzy this gift gave, it put action to words. Nickie’s reminiscences are
no longer just oral stories shared during nostalgic moments or scribbled tales
tucked away for “someday.” Her school years’ shenanigans have taken permanent
form—titled, illustrated, published. Suddenly, they look professional and
important. Important enough that all of us who have stories—and we all
do—should get busy putting them on paper and collecting those papers into a
forever form. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>What would it take for you to start writing the stories of your life? OR What stories have you already written? Has anyone else in your family published a family memoir?</i></span></div>
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should have been prepared for the breakup. There was plenty of warning: in
fact, a whole year’s notice that the relationship was ending. I could not do a thing about it, though, Lord knows, I went in often enough for counseling
and tried every trick the experts suggested. But it takes two to make a
relationship. If one party says they’re done, it’s over.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Instead
of acting like a grownup and planning how I would get along, I pouted and did
nothing. The year passed. The nightmare became real, and suddenly, I no longer
had the support I needed. Worse, the split cut me off from the whole world with
no way to let anyone know why I simple vanished from <i>site</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Deep down I did feel a kind of relief. Being cut off took away the pressure of constant performance.
But I wanted—needed—that responsibility. For three and a half months I stomped
my foot and moaned, “Why me?” knowing it happened to more others than I can
count.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My gritching
and griping must have worked like therapy because I’m finally ready to move on. Friends
introduced me to a new helpmeet. I took the plunge again. With some adjustments
and compromises, I think I can make this new thing work. The hardest part will
be getting used to the new last name. No longer am I plain <i>Marypf.com</i>. Now I’ve become a double name with <i>BLOGSPOT added.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And [<i>groan</i>] I have to come up with a
weekly blog again.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04296833158029475220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690025007661665778.post-64919722746316815142011-05-17T15:24:00.000-05:002012-10-20T21:43:19.106-05:00Keeping Your Appetite for Life<br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srBHrmE61kw/UHh3oyewlCI/AAAAAAAAAG4/SrSmdzaM13k/s1600/Keeping+Feast+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ArXG_66QeJY/UHh35iFCDDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/xCAMzyE6qZY/s1600/Vegies_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">(reposted from my "lost in the black hole" web site: still a favorite book that I </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">recommend)</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srBHrmE61kw/UHh3oyewlCI/AAAAAAAAAG4/SrSmdzaM13k/s1600/Keeping+Feast+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Paula Butturini's memoir Keeping the Feast" border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srBHrmE61kw/UHh3oyewlCI/AAAAAAAAAG4/SrSmdzaM13k/s200/Keeping+Feast+book.jpg" title="Paula Butturini's memoir Keeping the Feast" width="132" /></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Reading <a href="http://www.paulabutturini.com/" target="_blank">Paula's Butturini's Keeping The Feast</a> put food on my mind. Butturini peppered this memoir of her years in the news capitols of Europe with daily trips to street markets and the meals that resulted. Her descriptions of her father’s polenta-making and husband John’s risotto, in addition to the repasts she prepared, read like a cookbook. No matter that she included not a single recipe, she made me feel like I could whip up a quick pesto while a chicken roasts for dinner guests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I want my cooking to be like Butturini’s, to be a time of energetic preparation that precedes family gathering at the table. That is the way I grew up. I can't remember eating a childhood meal alone. Our family of six sat in appointed places and passed the dishes </span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">clockwise</span><span style="color: #643400; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">meat, potatoes, vegetable, salad, always fresh bread</span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000; letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We remained at the table beyond cleaning our plates to finish conversations awaited all day. Mealtime talk covered the day in our family business, from which customers were dealing for a tractor to who paid an overdue account (details private to our kitchen). Dad led analyses of the news headlines, answering our questions about why and how. School occurrences, if warranted, got their attention, too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That pattern of family meals continued in my home as our daughters grew up, but for the past decade I’ve broken the nourishing routine. Not because I quit believing in the worth of good cooking and companionable meals, but because I’ve grown weary. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wanted to fix healthy dishes that filled and satisfied and that loaded me up with all the right nutrients. Three times a day I went to my kitchen and symbolically tied on an apron, stood between open refrigerator doors, stared at the eggplant or zucchini and yellow squash, the green beans wilting in the plastic bag from the market, and pictured the plate all that bounty could make. Then energy flagged. I pulled out the “bag o’salad,” chopped a cucumber and cheese, threw in cherry tomatoes, and doused all with bottled vinaigrette. Quick and effortless won again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This routine started when I began living alone after my husband’s death. Resisting junk food but settling for uninspiring meals that, every few weeks, left me hungry for real dishes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Recently all has changed. My daughter and I decided to combine households. We chose my house and furniture, but she maintained her routines. That meant youthful exuberance and her customized cookbook. She pours through its clipped recipes, insisting on trying all new ones each week. Successes move to the permanent collection; less than stellar concoctions are summarily trashed. Our shopping lists read fresh, whole, and for the most part organic. Preparation may take an hour of chopping, pureeing, sauteing, and roasting, which cuts into my vegging time in front of the TV.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At first, unless guilt drove me to the kitchen to help, I puttered at the other end of the house until I heard sounds that meant a meal was ready. Grudgingly, I have admitted that her menus rise above my salads and restaurant doggie bags. I now join her at my own cutting board. We perform a dance in our galley kitchen, do-si-doing around each other to adjust the heat under a skillet, to check an ingredient on the recipe du jour, to sip a wine chosen for the menu, all the while chatting about our day.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ArXG_66QeJY/UHh35iFCDDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/xCAMzyE6qZY/s1600/Vegies_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fresh Vegetables" border="0" height="185" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ArXG_66QeJY/UHh35iFCDDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/xCAMzyE6qZY/s200/Vegies_1.jpg" title="Fresh Vegetables" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Recently a colleague asked how to make the vegetable dish I had taken to a carry-in supper. The question delighted me because I hadn’t been sure anyone would care about roasted vegetables seasoned with only a few herbs and olive oil instead of mushroom soup cream sauce. By the time I shared the simple </span><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">directions, I felt enlivened in a way that eluded me in my quick salad days. Paula Butturini defined the vitality I’m noticing in the truth she penned. More than delicious food results from gathering in the kitchen to poach a fish or stir a fresh marinara sauce. In <span id="goog_2139677303"></span><a href="http://www.paulabutturini.com/" target="_blank">Butturini</a>’<span id="goog_2139677304"></span>s words, “Cooking is part of keeping an appetite for life.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Tomorrow, when forecasted threatening weather sets in, instead of opening a can of soup, I will saute an ancho chile with onions and green pepper then add leftover chicken and stock. While it’s simmering, I may throw in those wilted carrots from the back of the fridge. Parsley, fresh cilantro, and a squeeze of lime will finish a soup guaranteed to make dinner around our table more pleasant than the winds outside. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04296833158029475220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690025007661665778.post-35265857915188847892011-04-26T18:00:00.000-05:002012-10-23T18:02:02.034-05:00The Marks I Made: A Life in the Classroom<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zX0tKNLDIR8/UIcd3U1b_TI/AAAAAAAAAJU/9RbE7xI7Ymo/s1600/book+stack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Stack of school books" border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zX0tKNLDIR8/UIcd3U1b_TI/AAAAAAAAAJU/9RbE7xI7Ymo/s200/book+stack.jpg" title="" width="126" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Win a couple of
essay contests in high school and the whole town thinks you should become an
English teacher. Everyone except Miss Paisley, the school counselor. She saw my
test scores and knew I couldn’t spell. Also, according to her, my handwriting
was more appropriate for prescriptions than blackboard lessons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mother pooh-hooed
Miss Paisley’s doctor idea as foolish for a girl, “By the time you get half way
through med school you’ll fall in love and want to get married. And then where
will you be?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Miss Paisley was
right. I must have misspelled <i>pre-med</i>
as <i>pre-ed</i> on my college entry forms;
they put me in the college of education. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mother was right,
too. When I married two days before graduation, Mother kept muttering, “She has
her teaching certificate. She has her teaching certificate.” The insurance
policy all girls needed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thirty years
later, the video at my retirement party chronicled a career of changing hairstyles
and glasses. It listed my teaching positions but missed the HONEST classroom
highlights recorded in my journals:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1: French I and II and freshman English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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French. But the only school hiring needed a French-English teacher and assumed
my grades in French meant fluency. Whenever students in English class pointed
out my misspelled words on the board, I told them it was the French spelling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was afraid to tackle the required
Freshmen novel because I hadn’t studied it in college [to learn the “correct”
symbolism]. Since in those days, you couldn’t teach if you were “showing,” I
got pregnant and left the book for my replacement. Hubby and I moved to the
other side of the continent, and I changed my hairstyle to prevent recognition
in case anyone from that school moved east.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2: Remedial Reading—in my hometown high school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To help the boys get ready for jobs at
local plants, I gave them practice application forms. They stalled on the
Maiden Name line. I abandoned that reading strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I taught them to read the drivers’
training manual so they could get driver’s licenses. The following year Mother
sent the newspaper account of Homer being arrested, driving the get-away car
used to steal a pig. I added <i>Aiding and Abetting a Criminal </i>to my
journal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3: 2nd grade. They were desperate for a teacher and overlooked my lack of
elementary certification. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The main objective with 36 seven-year-olds
is crowd control and constant counting. It took me an hour after recess to
discover that I was missing one boy and another hour to figure out which twin
it was who had decided to go home before reading time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rookie kindergarten teacher was as
unaware as I was of common catastrophes with primary schoolers. She discovered
when the children sat cross-legged on the reading carpet that little Candy
frequently came to school <i>sans</i> underpants. More disturbing to Miss Young
was Martin Mamasboy. He emerged stark naked from the restroom, calling,
“Teacher, come wipe me.” As far as I knew, my students always wore underwear
and took care of their own bathroom needs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn’t know new math. Neither did the
parents, so no one complained when I taught multiplication the old way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I failed at getting second graders to make
a circle on the playground. At the end of that year, I asked for a transfer to
middle school where they don’t have recess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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years of middle school English<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I graded 18,553 essays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of those essay writers became an
airline attendant. He told the whole plane on which I was flying that he had
been failing until he got to my English class. While I basked in his
compliments, I remembered our year differently. When all of my tricks failed to
get him to hand in homework, I called a parent conference. His dad threatened
the boy that unless he started studying, he would end up digging the graves in
the cemetery the father managed. Horrified at such an end to a student I liked,
I was jolted into action; I told Bennie I could do better and would swing by
his house to pick up his assignments or rummage through his locker for them
from then on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4690025007661665778" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two boys are now judges. (Chris, I’m sorry
I made you read <i>Last of the Mohicans</i> and <i>Evangeline</i>. Or did those
dry passages prepare you for law books?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thirty of my students became teachers
(before I stopped counting). One was named <i>Teacher of the Year</i>. She
probably knows how to get children into circles on the playground. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The boy who bicycled to world fame turned
out to be the one who swiped my teacher’s spelling book with all the answers. I
threatened no more spelling tests until the book was returned. Peer pressure
made him turn it over. (8th graders are not strong in logical thinking.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That was the year I decided to teach
grownups. They don’t have spelling tests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently, I sat on
a scholarship committee to interview future teachers. One hopeful told us that Divine
Fate had brought her to the decision to teach. Remembering exactly how I had
ended up repeating the 8th grade fifteen times, I told her I understood
completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you
have a “how I choose my career” story? Teachers, what was your worst rookie
mistake? If you dare, share the humor with us.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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