Tag: tellings
member name: Verie Sandborg
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December 02, 2007 05:27 PM EST --
One of my special memories of the Christmas season occurred in a highly unlikely place--my high school's locker room during ninth grade. The story of this special memory begins in the . . .
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April 06, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
Earth Day 2009 is coming. When did Earth Day begin? Why have an Earth Day? The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. It was led by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, coordinated . . .
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April 23, 2009 07:41 PM EDT --
As we knelt to get a better look at the two kittens on the floor, one of them scrambled to the edge of a battered couch, looked us in the eyes, and meowed loudly. Only six-weeks-old, she had short, . . .
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May 04, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Among the mementos I treasure are three Mother's Day cards that thee children made for their mothers between 1945 and 1972.
1945
The fighting in Europe during World War II had ended only . . .
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November 18, 2007 12:30 PM EST --
We remember and mourn Dotty, our wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.
As we remember Dotty, we also remember ourselves for Dotty has become a part of us.
As we mourn Dotty, . . .
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May 20, 2008 03:45 PM EDT --
Wearing a pink, cap-sleeved cotton dress underneath the white graduation robe, I stood at the lectern and read my presentation to the congregation. It was June 3, 1951, and I was graduating from . . .
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March 11, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Getting a busy signal again, I hung up the phone. It was a mid March day in the early 1980s, and I had been trying all evening to call my father long distance at his retirement residence in Michigan to . . .
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March 16, 2009 09:08 PM EDT --
Sitting on the hard pew, I was so drowsy I couldn't keep my eyes open or sit up straight. I was four going on five, and my mom and I were attending one of our church's Wednesday evening . . .
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February 01, 2008 04:50 PM EST --
Hot and sweaty, my siblings and I rinsed the sand off our feet as we pumped cool water over them from the old water pump next to the back porch of my grandmother's house. Meanwhile, my grandmother . . .
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February 12, 2008 09:33 PM EST --
Shuffling from one foot to the other, I stood uneasily staring into the corner of the room as punishment for talking during class. It was 1943, and I was in the first grade of Lutheran School in . . .
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July 22, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
For my 71st birthday this year, my daughter Pam and son David surprised me by giving me a Kindle. What's a Kindle? Kindle is Amazon's new wireless electronic reader that provides users . . .
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April 12, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
Not saying a word, I mentally cried Ow! and quickly pulled back my hand and rubbed my fingers to take the sting out of them. Our teacher, Miss Hollins, had just stepped on the fingers of my right . . .
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October 20, 2005 08:39 AM EDT --
I recently participated in the National Geographic's Genographic Project. I found the experience interesting, informative and fun to do. The May 2005 National Geographic magazine describes the project . . .
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August 25, 2005 10:01 PM EDT --
Sometimes, I like to mentally tour the house in Southwestern Michigan, where I grew up. Wandering through the rooms of my childhood like this jogs my memory and helps me discover who I am.
Built in . . .
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September 04, 2007 07:28 PM EDT --
The year after my mom graduated from eighth grade at Lutheran School, she began working at Rimes and Hildebrand, an upscale department store in my hometown. She was 15. Mom worked in dry goods . . .
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October 27, 2006 03:03 PM EDT --
Each generation of children takes for granted the technology developed during its parents' lives. Today's young people are comfortable with computers, the Internet, blogs, camcorders, . . .
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December 08, 2006 04:22 PM EST --
Images of Christmas in movies and song, on cards and advertising, often appeal to tradition and the sense of belonging that tradition wraps us in. While nowadays we might present family . . .
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