Tag: Little girls

Writing from the Heart {31 Days}

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One night when I was about 9 I got to dress my curly-red-headed little sister for bed. I felt so grown up. She was a mischievous stinker who could get away with murder because we adored her. That evening, my mom handed me a fat pink book with a lock and key. “What’s this?” I […]

Working Long Summer Days Away {31 Days}

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It’s strange how things you despised as a child you miss as an adult. Growing up on a farm was no picnic. We moved from Florida to Kansas when I was 8 years old. We’d only been on the farm a year when my dad started investing in livestock. My brother Dave and I went […]

Stories that Changed Me {31 Days}

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Who remembers the good old days of cassette tapes? We had a tall black upright piano in our living room with a stereo on top of it. Its two speakers sat down on the floor beside the piano. My brother Dave and I used to lie on our stomachs and listen to stories playing on […]

The Magic of Stories {31 Days}

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Day 2. Nothing thrilled my little girl self more than Disney’s Cinderella. Our family would borrow a VCR and the VHS tape from my dad’s co-worker and I’d stick that movie in day after day. Sometimes, toward the end of the movie, just after the Duke slipped the slipper on Cinderella’s foot, I’d quickly rewind […]