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No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga~Part Three

Posted in about me, childhood stories, family, family stories, memoir on May 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »

One of the most exotic acquisitions during this time period was a Jaguar–not the kind that eats and prowls and growls–but the kind with four wheels that moved as sleek as a cat and purred like a kitten.  It was a beautiful car.  The cream colored beauty had matching leather interior with highly glossed wood [...]

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No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga—Part Two

Posted in childhood stories, family stories, fathers, life's little treasures, memoir on May 21, 2009 | 11 Comments »

Over the next three years, my father was sent to specialist after specialist.  We lived in San Jose, less than an hour from San Francisco.  He had to go to UC San Francisco Medical Center for a series of treatments.  The visits to the clinic took all day.  He couldn’t go alone so we took [...]

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No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga—Part One

Posted in family stories, memoir on May 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »

“No hay mal que por bien no venga” is one of my father’s favorite sayings.  It is the equivalent of saying that “every cloud has a silver lining”.  My family has lived through some really tough times and one thing that helps keep things in perspective is this saying.
I remember the day it happened—the day [...]

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Journeys

Posted in life, tagged on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This week, as I have been traveling, I’ve had the opportunity to re-connect with old friends and old memories.  It has been a journey that one hour will have me talking about here and now and then next I will be catapulted 35 years into the past.  I’ve talked to people I knew in high [...]

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Let Me Tell You

Posted in about me, my kids on May 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »

This is a short thing I wrote as an assignment a few years ago.  The prompt was “Let Me Tell You”.  As I’m traveling, it’s hard to post and I came across this on a CD so I’m sharing it with you today.
Let me tell you about Susie… Susie is my sunshine. She [...]

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Oh Mom!

Posted in Mother's Day, daughters on May 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Even during horrible times,  humor is sure to be present.
When my brother  died at the end of March, one of my jobs was to go through the tons of pictures my mother has collected over the past 60 years.  I was looking for pictures of my brother and of our family during happier times; pictures [...]

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Cinco de Mayo

Posted in cinco de mayo, memories, traditions on May 5, 2009 | 10 Comments »

It wasn’t until I got an email from my son asking me for a recipe for Spanish rice to make for dinner tonight that I realized it is Cinco de Mayo.  I sent him the recipe, all the while thinking back on all the years when I went all out for Cinco de Mayo and [...]

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