Category: Family
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Saturday Six #8: Countdown
Usually, by the time I get to this point in December, I’m already starting to feel the letdown of Christmas being over. I know, I know, that’s kind of lame when Christmas is still a week out, but sometimes, I’m so excited about anticipating Christmas that when it gets this close, it almost feels like…
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Someday Soon
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” really should be our anthem this holiday season. The song was written in 1943 for the film, Meet Me In St. Louis, and actress Judy Garland was the first to sing it. In the movie, she sings the song to her little sister on Christmas Eve because their family…
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Saturday Six #7: Christmas Movies
I love Christmas, so you’ll have to forgive another holiday-themed Saturday Six. (There will be one next week, too, so consider yourself warned!) Yesterday on my way to work, the radio station was doing their daily brain-buster game, and the question was, “Fifty percent of people surveyed list this as their favorite holiday activity.” I…
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Saturday Six #6: Gifts of Christmases Past
Whether you’re giving or receiving, gifts can be one of the sweetest parts of life. Today I’m sharing six gifts that hold happy memories (complete with a few vintage photos!). Snowbabies ornaments. When I was in 8th grade, we took a school field trip to Frankenmuth, MI. I can’t even remember why we went or…
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The Day Before
I love the day before Thanksgiving. It’s one of my favorite days of the year. I can remember this as far back as early high school, when my aunt and uncle took us to Red Wings hockey games for a few consecutive years on the evening before Thanksgiving. We’d have dinner at Pizza Papalis in…
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Saturday Six #5: Places I Would Live
I’ll qualify this post by saying that affordability and distance from family are not considerations for this list. I’ve made it assuming that I could live comfortably in any of these places and have access to those I love most, whenever I want to see them. I also didn’t include anywhere in Michigan, since I…
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Saturday Six #4: Halloween
I love Halloween. I love the idea of it being the one night of the year when the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest. Do I actually believe it? No, not really. Do I like watching scary or horror movies? Nope. Do I like the idea of evil and the undead and…
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Junior High
To celebrate Halloween, here’s a little short story I wrote a few years ago for the writers’ group I was in, inspired by an All Hallows’ incident from my childhood. Hope you like it! Mom said I had to wear a winter coat and long johns with my costume. It wasn’t the first time. I’d…
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Saturday Six #2: Great Lakes Memories
I am currently on a weekend trip with three of my closest friends from high school. We’re staying in a house just across from Grand Traverse Bay, on the northernmost tippy-top of the Leelanau Peninsula in lower Michigan. It’s an amazing spot, and I love these girls, so I’m a happy lady right now. In…
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A New Kind of October
October is here, and it’s feeling pretty anticlimactic. October is the month I desperately look forward to each year. For more than a decade, Octobers have been a carefully planned and meticulously executed string of events, carrying us from one weekend to the next until suddenly, it’s All Saints Day. It’s a whirlwind of orange…
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