Author: Personal Chapters
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Tall tale teller and teaser of grandchildren
This site is a showcase for personal stories. I am blessed with friends who have begun to tell me their fun, quirky tales because they know I love them. And because I badger them into recording them. Don, my high school classmate, is becoming a master at telling tales. At the launch of our line…
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Too many goodbyes
We buried my sweet Aunt Neva on Tuesday. She was 80 and had spent the last nine years battling Alzheimer’s. And today we said goodbye to my cousin Linda Rose. She was only 68 and had lost her fierce battle to peritoneal cancer. That’s too many funerals, too many good-byes for one week. But every…
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Lost and found: My second cousin, once or twice removed
As a journalist and writer, I’ve often harshly accused myself of never having an original thought. I spent 30 years writing and re-telling the thoughts or actions of others. In the midst of that career, I often adopted the causes of my interview subjects as my own, subtly using my journalistic and writing training to…
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I blame this business on my mother
My mother is to blame for this Personal Chapters business. I only wish she was alive so I could complain to her about sleepless nights, credit card charges, endless discussions with friends and colleagues and the birthing pains I have endured. But then I would also be sharing my joys and hopes and the immense…
