Tag: cousins
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Marty
Time is amazing and ongoing. On a pace that everyone has to catch up to regardless of a person’s circumstances. Marty was my mom’s cousin and two years ago the Lord took him home. Like I said, it doesn’t seem like it has already been 2 years… time has just ticked onward. He was a…
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Summer School: Getting Lost
Monday after my class, instead of heading back north on 57 I would be heading in the opposite direction. My time in Evansville had always been with family; never on my own. Yet once I started college I began visiting with Great-Aunt Margaret, Grandpa Freddy’s sister-in-law, I think this was the beginning of my solo…
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Summer School at OCU
My college life was really unique. I began college right after graduating from high school, but realized a Catholic Campus wasn’t right for me after all. So then working a job for most of that semester and saving up I was able to start college for the Spring Semester. Maybe this course a year later…
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Summer School With a Twist
By the timestamp on my paperwork for my class, my one summer course was taken in 2005. This was a very trying and overwhelming year for our family. It was the year of Firsts. The first planting season without Grandpa all of the firsts you can think of we went through all of them. I…
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The Tree Song
Growing up on the Alsman side there is one obviously large tree close to my Grandparents house. In my mind as a child and as an adult; that’s our Family Tree. Monday night as we sat outside under the span of its leaves from the branches talk emanated. We recently had some guys cut the…
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Sunday Night Thoughts
Since my Grandpa Leo died 23 years ago Sundays have been set aside for Grandma-time. Not exactly all of us at times, but we are pretty determined. There are not very many Sundays in all these years that she didn’t have at least one visitor. Even now being in a residence her room is usually…
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Grandparents Love
Life is bittersweet. Some children grow up without the love and support of their grandparents. Or others have one grandparent and not the other. Not to mention the idea of having great-grandparents lavish their smiles and obvious love towards a child may seem completely oblivion. A special truth I know from both sides of my…
Jewells of Thought 