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July 29, 2017July 28, 2017Snowbird of Paradise

Looking at Old Stuff with Old People

When you go to a museum with old people, you don’t see artifacts, you see memories.     I had the pleasure of visiting the Innisfail Historical Village yesterday in the company of a busload of people on a summer outing from the North Edmonton Seniors Association. We had already spent the morning at a […]

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Hewens Road, Hayes End by Alan Hunt via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0)
May 26, 2017May 26, 2017Snowbird of Paradise

Looking Back

I’ve done a lot of looking back over the last couple of weeks. I have been visiting with some of the members of my UK family, and I realized that when you are around extended family, they tell stories of things that happened in the past. They tell some of the same stories repeatedly. That’s […]

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My Story cover by Fox Feature Syndicate through Wikimedia Commons
August 23, 2016August 22, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

My Story Depends on the Storyteller

Other people tell my stories differently from me. In fact, sometimes I don’t even recognize them as my own stories. I recently discovered that some of my extended family members think my first marriage was to a man who may have been mentally unstable and that I married him in order to leave home. They […]

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