Category Archives: Families don’t you love them

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

FrizzText’s photo challenge this week is “j”. This post is a brief description of my parents  journeys from Jerusalem, and Jamshedpur to a city in Africa beginning with “j“… My family has emigrated every generation since my grandfather left Odessa … Continue reading →

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Tagged “i” is for my parents …

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

When I saw that this week Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Challenge is “i“, I just had to join in because: “i” = India my Mother’s birth place “i” = Israel my Father’s birth place I’m really sad that I still haven’t … Continue reading →

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I lived with a barbed-wire fence in my mouth

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

That day so many years ago when my dentist requested a meeting with my mother I already knew it wasn’t going to be good news, because he usually ended our visits repeating the same old story about brushing our teeth … Continue reading →

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Where’s the family restroom?

Posted on January 12, 2013 by

Happy New Year y’all! Another busy holiday season. Although I didn’t check off a list, I’m sure I served people from every country in the world, and whether they came from Dubai or Norway or Korea or Russia they all … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Posted on December 29, 2012 by

WordPress photo challenge this week is My 2012 in pictures. 2012 was an exciting, eventful, wonderful year for me.  I fulfilled a long-time personal challenge to walk along the Camino to Santiago de Compostela, my beautiful daughter got married in … Continue reading →

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Only the rotten apples fall from the tree…

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

             My earliest memory is of banging my head on the floor while my three older siblings laugh.  Though about nine months old, I remember my frustration at their teasing, I can’t speak, can’t tell them to shut up, I … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: a Happy wedding

Posted on October 6, 2012 by

A mother’s pride… While I always looked forward to my kids progressing to the next stage of crawl-walk-talk-go-to-school, the fact that they’d become “adults” one day was something I didn’t think about, it was so far away in the future, … Continue reading →

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Do you believe in ghosts?

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Do you believe in ghosts? A ghost was in my house all week, but I only realized last night that it had taken control of my computer while I was writing the post  “Unveiling by Linda Pastan” https://rosannefreed.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/a-pebble-for-her-tombstone/ When I … Continue reading →

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Poetry: Unveiling by Linda Pastan

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Unveiling by Linda Pastan In the cemetery a mile away from where we used to live, my aunts and mother my father and uncles lie in two long rows, almost the way they used to sit around the long planked table … Continue reading →

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nine Museum Musings: including summer weather in January, and more kids with long hair

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

1. “Why are we spending all this time shopping before we see the museum?” a little boy asked his mom, who ignored the question. 2. “What is this?” a kid asked me holding up a pen. Me: “It’s called a … Continue reading →

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