Tag: memoirs
group name: bookofmyself
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July 13, 2007 09:23 PM EDT --
My mother was an artist, so it came naturally to me.
I sketched, scribbled and dabbled in most every media throughout my life, but my favorite was acrylics. That would change.
A good friend, Zandra, . . .
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April 19, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
She was born and raised in Minnesota at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. One day she rode her father's horse to deliver a message to her father who was helping out a neighbor in his . . .
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August 09, 2007 10:32 PM EDT --
This is the day my Mother died. Sixteen years ago, but it seems like yesterday. I have smelled lilacs all day, a reminder of her. She loved lilacs, and always shared the flowers from her huge lilac tree . . .
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May 31, 2006 04:11 AM EDT --
J. was my first mentor in the software business in the early 1980's and became a true friend over the years. He was a marketing genius and about twenty years my senior. We traded roles . . .
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July 04, 2006 03:47 AM EDT --
Dad said it is important to have beliefs and to share them with others, but he was willing to accept new information that might change his previous beliefs. For example, when he found out my two . . .
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July 28, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
Gramma used to be able to purchase fresh butter from the ladies who lived in near by farms. When the Great Depression hit, butter was no longer available to her, as it was so expensive.
So, Gramma had . . .
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April 25, 2006 05:46 AM EDT --
Note from David Marshall: This entry is from "Just a Country Boy," the original memoirs from my grandfather Carl E. Marshall that inspired us to co-write "The Book of Myself". . . .
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