Tag: uncles

• Timing, God’s Timing!

  My uncle lost his drivers license on Friday. After all chaos is a perfect word for the past weekend and what we have endured on some level. Yet he didn’t realize it until today. Last Friday was a busy day because he also forgot his phone a couple of times that day. One time was…

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  June 3, 2024

  Family, God’s Timing

  accident, aunts, driving, Family, family-history, injuries, losing things, non life-threatening injuiries, photos, thoughts, timing, traffic, travel, uncles, wounded, wreck

• Tuesday: 2nd Appointment… Another Memory

  This appointment was made and it was said my uncle could get in within a week. That was back in early to mid April. There were no cancellations to be switched in to get him in early at all. It had been way over a month of waiting for this appointment. The night before we…

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  May 23, 2024

  God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Uncategorized

  accidentally, appointment, backtracking, Chili’s, emotionally exhausted, Epson salts, Family, Grandmas, great-aunts, Gutfeld, Interstate 70, lane closures, laughter, life, Maher, memories, Moms, phones, photos, physically exhausted, Plainfield, snafus, story, travel, uncles

• Misjudging… Depths

  Do you ever get into conversations you wish you hadn’t started? Especially when you are driving? No I don’t mean anything to do with iPhones! This is completely about conversations in the car before you decide where you are going to go! Okay I was totally alert I was looking back as I went backwards.…

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  March 4, 2024

  Spontaneity At It’s Best

  cars, conversation, cousins, decisions, ditches, Family, Farmers daughters, fields, folly, Grandpa, history, iphones, lane, life, memoir, misjudging depths, uncles, writing

• Valentines Day Story #2

  One year not very long after Grandpa Freddy died a new movie came out. According to the date this movie came out nearly 6 years after his death. I still remember the Hallmark Movie being on a CBS Special Presentation. Dad and I initially watched it together that night. Mom I think fell asleep before…

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  February 14, 2024

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  2011, articles, comfort food, death, Family, food, friends, grandma, interaction, life, love, memories, movies, routines, Special Presentation, uncles, Valentines, Valentines Day Stories, writing

• Valentines Day Stories

  A little less than a week before Valentines Day I had been scheduled to have my very first surgery. It was one that shouldn’t have happened… but it did. What scared me and freaked me out was just a little bump that ended up being a benign fibrous tissue a cyst that was infected and…

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  February 13, 2024

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  achiness, blog, Family, Grandma’s, health, icing, life, special times, surgeries, surgery, tired, uncles, Valentines Day Stories

• Vintage Birthday Card

  These cards are all special to me. How I received most of these cards now decades later… are lost to the space in my brain. This is why getting a chance to look through them again is nice as an adult. My uncles gave this card to me and I don’t know what birthday it…

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  January 11, 2024

  Family, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Women

  birthday, Birthday Cards, blessed, curlicues, cursive writing, encouragement, fun uncles, movie theater, pizza and movies, theater atmosphere, uncles

• Mystified

  Never ever in my life did I think this could happen. Usually luck runs out if you believe in luck. I don’t know how many more times I can use the word dumbfounded so I used that word for the title. Grandpa Leo has been gone for almost 24 years. I only had him in…

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  November 20, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  cousins, divine delivery, dumbfounded, letters, messages, mystified, uncles

• Thoughts On Uncle Tom’s Interview

  When I sat down on the swing that day I was unsure how long I could take this interview. I was still new at this and each man was different. I think he asked me how we should start and I said simply start with your name and when you started your service. Literally that…

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  November 8, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Uncategorized

  college professors, interviews, thoughts, uncles, Veterans, Vietnam

• Facebook Memories…

  Over the previous week a few of my past posts have been showing up on my notifications. I have mentioned one of the posts a couple days ago. Today we knew we had to say goodbye to my Uncle Mike. The timing has been like a sucker punch to the gut with my Aunt’s passing…

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  October 2, 2023

  Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  aunts, baptism, death, decisions, Family, love, uncles

• Loving Words… Feedback

  Yesterday was a big day for me. Back when I was in college I day-dreamed of being able to have all of my Grandpa’s siblings together to talk about his service time. It was important to me and I did get to speak individually to some of them, but not necessarily the way I wanted…

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  September 1, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  aunts, books, Family, feedback, generations, talking, uncles