Good Shepard Nursing Home, Sauk Rapids MN.
About this time I had become in her mind her first husband, my father, who had died 50 years earlier.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Nov. 1, 1995
Jan. 1, 1995
Each year on the first day, we separate sweaters no longer worn and take them to the local thrift store.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Dec. 30, 2007
Mother and I moved from New York City to Detroit Lakes MN when my father died at the age 36. She eventually remarried a local men's clothing salesman and I was no longer an only child. Jack, four years older than me, and Sandra, my age, became my siblings in one quick ceremony. Although we barely knew each other, Sandra and I taught each other to slow dance to Doris Day records.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Dec. 27, 2007
Tonight Christa and Adam of Lawrence KS got married in the Stearns County courthouse, location of the courtroom scene in the first Mighty Ducks movie. We joined them and Andrew and Val of Chicago and Val's brother Luke for a prenuptial brunch at Pete's Place, two blocks from the courthouse. Christa teaches design at Emporia College, Adam is a library science graduate student at the same college. Andrew is a graphic designer in downtown Chicago, Val just finishing her MFA in painting at a university in Chicago. And Luke is a bicycle messenger in Chicago. All but Adam took classes from me at St. Cloud State.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Dec. 26, 2007
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the moment 66 years ago that Harry James hit high C for the first time.
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Dec. 28, 2007
In the waning years of WW II, we were living in Rockville Center, Long Island, I was about 12 and dad was dying of a brain tumor. Mom said NYC was no place for a widow to bring up a child, so she packed us up and we took a train to her childhood home in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. That's where she met and married this widower. He was a clothing salesman and outdoorsman.
Dec. 27, 2007
Hamburger at Petes Place