Forever Changed
After almost ten years of being a single mom to two children, with several attempts to ‘fix me up’ with a man, a friend gave my phone number to a potential suiter without telling me. We went on several dates, which led to more time together, which led to a birthday dinner at a really […]
Memories from Long Ago
The shoes belonged to my mother. She sent them to me to wear with a dress for a wedding I was attending. I never ended up wearing, these shoes but kept them in the original box, with my mother’s name hand-written on the outside. -Yaffa These shoes presented a lot of challenge to me while […]
Sliced
Super Bowl Sunday 2019 brought new beginnings to our household. My Mom had a stroke in December 2018 and had been staying at our house so we could care for her. We took her home the Saturday before Super Bowl Sunday. We were in the process of remodeling our main floor before she came to […]
Miles Beyond
In 2004, my older sister Sharon passed away after a 9 year battle with breast cancer. I received the news while at work, and was devastated. My student worker, and friend, Sarah, was with me at the time. She knew all about Sharon even though they had never met. Sarah knew of Sharon’s strength, her […]
My Ruby Slippers
I can’t remember when I saw “The Wizard Of OZ” for the first time, but I also can’t remember a time when I did not define my way of life by its teachings. As a child, my family gathered for the annual showing on TV of the “Wizard of OZ”. I always knew that this […]
Big Bend and Memory Shoes
As memories go, the first purchase from a Facebook vendor was a very scary action for Kim. But these tennis shoes were so universe-y looking that temptation was given into. It turned out that these tennis shoes happened to be the most comfortable ever purchased and worn! The tennis shoes have been around for nearly […]
Words Hurt
When I was in junior high school, 7th grade, I was sitting in a group/circle of about 12 girls at lunchtime. We were outside it being California. I noticed one of the other girls (fairly popular and pretty) had the same shoes on that I did. I mentioned it “hey Kim we have the same […]
Dreams Come True
Emy was born in 1937, one of eight children raised in a small farm near Munich Germany. Her family was very poor as were all the small farm families at that time and even more so after the war. Emy and her young brother would go to bigger farms and beg for food but could […]
Fashionable
I was in my mid to late 20’s, had 4 sons and was a stay at home mom with very little discretionary money. Like everyone else, I wanted to look nice, be able to be fashionable. But there were bills to be paid. I was shopping which I usually hated to do when I saw […]
These almost brand new shoes
These almost brand new shoes, like all of ours, have a story. They belonged to my sister, Gail. Gail was the third in a family of 4 kids. My mom always said Gail was shy, the one child in our boisterous group who held back with strangers, was the last to break out in a […]