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Letter to Mom: Saturday Morning in 1966

Written by: fduty, on 05/03/2013
Saturday morning cartoons were a big deal to me and my three younger brothers in 1966. Each of us had an assigned Saturday for deciding whether we would watch Huckleberry Hound, Bugs Bunny, or the Jetsons. On one particular morning, I was unhappy with the choice one of my siblings had made. How a pipe wrench came to be in my eight-year-old hand, I do not remember. I do, however, very clearly remember striking the head of one of the characters of the offending cartoon. Th...

Our New Great Grandchild

Written by: Miriam, on 04/13/2013
After my husband’s passing, I wrote “thank yous“ for the wonderful condolence messages, and as was my habit, signed both our names. I soon heard from concerned friends that I wasn’t facing reality. “What reality?” I protested. “I am our secretary; he always left it to me.” However, he did compose one note that I cherish. He wrote it on the day of our second daughter’s birth, and I have read the note at the naming of each of my great grandchildren. “Thank you, dear G-d,” h...

The End of a Legacy

Written by: seamstressofwords, on 04/02/2013
My grandfather, like my grandfather's father and all the men before or after him in my family, is a fisherman. Not just any kind of fisherman, though. There's the fishermen who fish on the beach, off the dock, or off a boat, and then there's the fishermen who own party boats, capable of taking out crowds of 75-100 to go fishing during the summer and early fall. My grandfather was the latter.When my grandfather's father was starting out in life (I'm saying his 30s)he bought ...

Tattoos, Faith and Memories

Written by: Kwweesten, on 02/25/2013
It has been seven years since my grandma passed away. Going into high school, I not only had to grow up but say goodbye to a really important person in my life as well. It was hard enough dealing with the upset, let alone going through the notions just to get through school. But I found a way to cope, knowing she’s happier where she is – no longer in pain from being sick. Ever since she left, I always thought of new ways to cherish her memory. But the things I made along the ...

Holding On To Happy Days

Written by: MariaRose, on 02/17/2013
One of my favorite TV shows is about two decades older than I. The cast was on its second televised reunion by the time I was born. I posted these thoughts about Happy Days here because I know they will resonate far more with those who grew up with or had children that watched the series the first time around. This teenager saw her first episode while home sick in 8th grade; with the help of her DVR she was soon hooked. Happy Days was an idealistic, altruistic show that a...

Nanny Called

Written by: Girlboxer1970, on 02/14/2013
My grandmother called today. I saw her this past Sunday. Prior to today and Sunday I hadn't seen her since Christmas Eve. I'm ashamed of that.When I do visit Nanny, she talks constantly about dying. Not that she is afraid to die, but that she wishes death would hurry up and arrive. I understand she has lived over 80 years so I try to steer our conversations to stories of the past.Nanny is a wealth of writing material. She brings back memories during our talks that I...

Dusty Rose

Written by: Lucy Marie, on 02/10/2013
A soft, sweet summer breeze sweeps over the path, as her shimmering golden locks fly behind her and she toddles after a puppy.With her bright, exquisite sundress blowing in the wind and her dainty little baby toes padding on the cold, hard packed earth, not even noticing how hard and cold it is, and only seeing the true beauty around her.She stops long enough to smell an auspicious, boastful flower, when a bright, red, luminescent berry catches her eye. She plucks it off th...

Eulogy for Pappy

Written by: SamanthaBise, on 02/07/2013
Someone once said, “A ship sails and I stand watching until it fades on the horizon and someone at my side says it is gone. Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. It is just as large now as when I last saw it. That is what dying is—a horizon and just the limit of our sight.” That is how I’ll remember my Pappy—just as large and just as real as the last time I saw him.Anybody who has ever worked in retail knows that one old man who comes into their store every week and ...

My Thoughts on Newtown: Secure Our First Line of Defense

Written by: readarose, on 01/15/2013
A pall fell over our country just weeks before Christmas when twenty innocent victims, some no older than ten, lost their lives in yet another senseless shooting. Over the last few years, I’ve asked myself time and again, when did this violence begin…and more importantly, why? For me, growing up took place in a simpler, gentler time. School and safety were synonymous. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons I became a teacher. I always loved school! Over the years, I wi...

Stage of Life needs help taking storytelling mobile!

Written by: Nate DeRose, on 12/11/2012
Hello All,Stage of Life is proud to announce its latest endeavor - the development of the first mobile storytelling game! For the last three months, we have been putting our creative efforts into drafting Writing Race, a multiplayer story writing game for Apple iPhone where friends will collaboratively (or competitively) write a story together using their mobile phone.Our idea to expand Stage of Life’s literacy initiative to the mobile realm began as some scribbling on a...

Raising my granddaughter

Written by: Brendavr, on 10/18/2012
I am a 45 year old grandmother I have a beautiful 6 year old grand daughter she is the light of my life. She lives with me full time and I am her legal guardian I never thought I would be raising another one I had children early in life, didn't want to be a older parent. I love my 2 children dearly but was looking forward to not having a little one underfoot. school PTA, parent teacher conferences, Dr visits etc, But now I wouldn't give it up for the world. It is a lot of w...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

Written by: meemers, on 09/27/2012
Is that all there is? and then DIE?I don't think so.....thats what I thought when I was a teen.....then HE TOUCHED ME! Yes, I was blown away when I was on drugs....I was 20 , a college drop out and making pizzas for something to do. I was drinking daily to escape the emptiness of my existence. Sure, it was a facade that I was "partying". I was miserable and God knew it. He was gracious enough to know when to intervene. I was busted a few weeks earlier for having a party wit...

Article contribution

Written by: wecare.home, on 09/03/2012
Hi there,How may I be able to contribute articles to your blog? Do I paste the entire content here? Or do I email you the article in word file?Looking forward to hear from you.Regards,Ava...

Lucky and Fortunate

Written by: sjluvsu, on 08/22/2012
I have never been in favor of numbers, especially when it came to age. When kids joke about death, I immediately become sensitive unknowingly. But I'm aware aging is natural and inevitable, which is what scares me the most.Luckily, I am surrounded by all these people that I love, like my grandparents. But whenever I am spending time with them, I can't help but noticing another wrinkle on their face or their momentary loss of memory. Time passes by so quickly and so do the...

Dear Nana,

Written by: nellyfloyd, on 08/17/2012
I remember growing up how every time you held me you held me super close. Ever time you would see me you would say how beautiful I was and spoil me rotten. But when I started growing up you slowly changed. What happened to the Nana who would eat chocolate chip cookies with me until our stomach hurt? Or the Nana who would watch hours of television with me when you had so many other things to do? Nana what happened?Why don't you remember me? Why don't you remember who...

Eye-opening Health Case 1: Grandmother

Written by: permutations, on 08/02/2012
My grandmother recently had a heart attack. About six months ago, she was routinely doing chores and cooking food for my family in India, when she fell to the floor and started having heart pains. My aunt and uncle quickly took her to the clinical practitioner a few doors over and asked what had just happened. The doctor told them she had just had a heart attack! What was amazing was that even with the heart attack, she was able to walk to the doctor’s office. Nevertheless, m...

Food from my grandparents kitchen and garden

Written by: Debrapugh, on 06/17/2012
Until I was three years old we lived with my grandparents on my mother’s side in their home south of Pittsburgh. Then my parents and grandparents bought two adjacent properties out in Nottingham Township, farther south, out in ‘the country” My parents had one acre and built their home on top of a hill. The grandparents on my mother’s side had an acre next to that on a lower plot. I remember running out of my ranch house kitchen door, down the steps to the driveway, wher...

Becoming a Grandmother for the First Time

Written by: Debrapugh, on 06/06/2012
This is an adaption of a blog post on www.thehomespun.com“He must be the most documented baby on Facebook EVER! “ This was an observation by one of my son’s friends when my first grandchild, Brent, was going on a year old.Well, I don’t know. Surely there are others like me? I did a quick Facebook check today. I have 73 photo albums…..not sure how many pictures are in each but probably about 30 or more per album would be a good average. I also have 287 videos there.I uploa...

A Special Birthday Cake

Written by: warren, on 05/23/2012
Raised in Eastern Europe or possibly the Russian Empire, my grandmother could get by in a handful of languages. I don’t know about the other languages, but her English was heavily accented. That fit in just fine when and where I grew up in Upstate New York. Many grandparents and more than a few parents were first generation immigrants. Our small city bore no resemblance to New York City. There were no neighborhood concentrations of immigrants from any one country or convers...

Control your attitude and you’ll control your destiny.

Written by: captaindee, on 05/14/2012
When I was young, we lived in the inner city. I had a great time growing up but it wasn’t without its challenges. I remember living in my neighbor as a youth, there was this street not too far from house that we weren’t allowed to cross. I never knew what was beyond that street but I always knew that there was more to life than just my neighborhood. Don’t ask me how, but I knew that there was so much more to life and so much more I needed to see.I remember sitting and talki...

Unique Gifts for Grandkids

Written by: NicPenningtonSmyth, on 04/16/2012
Gift-giving shouldn't be so hard, but it can be difficult keeping up with all of the trends. Pop culture evolves, and fads change as time goes by. Staying involved long enough to find a gift that will dazzle your grandkids can be a real challenge. What's popular anymore? Such-and-such replaced so-and-so, which had taken over for this, that and the other thing. Here's some advice. Don't worry about buying the “right” thing. You're not shopping for a “thing” anyway – what ...

Letter to My Grandchild: Your Special Role in My Life

Written by: Rural Marie, on 02/27/2012
Dear Grandbaby,When you are born, you will be the last of a long line of grandchildren. Your oldest cousins will be your teenaged babysitters; the grade-schoolers will be your personal entertainers. The youngest of your cousins, always a few steps ahead of you, will be eager to show you everything they’ve learned in their own short lives.As for me, I will coddle and snuggle you as I have all the rest. But I will hold you a little closer, knowing you will be the last. I wi...

Letter to my Grandbaby: Sloan Baby, Sloan Man

Written by: kimberlyann, on 02/20/2012
Sloan Baby,I know you are only nine months old and so you won’t be able to read this letter for a while. But I know this Mamie’s feelings will only deepen by then, so multiply all I am about to say times a hundred.I love you so much I let you teethe on my chin; yes, even when real teeth started coming through. You love me so much you show off by sticking out your tongue or clucking it and winking at me (with both eyes, mind you). All - simply to impress me with your...

Keeping Mom Close, But Not Too Close

Written by: Karl, on 01/31/2012
I'm in my thirty's and am married. My wife and I are just settling in to our new home, and thinking about starting a family. On top of these exciting new changes, my mom has been experiencing several health problems. Her doctor has encouraged her not to live alone, as her condition worsens. I do not want to have my mom be put into a nursing home at such a young age, or have her feel like she is trapped. My wife and I have considered asking her to move into our new ho...

The Empty Nest Express

Written by: Ms. Kathleen, on 01/16/2012
Hi, I am new to stages of life. I blog at The Empty Nest Express http://theemptynestexpress.com). I'm a fairly new happily married empty nester with two little grandangels that I watch one day a week. At times I have guest bloggers and am looking for some single parents who are now empty nesters who might like to briefly - 3-4 paragraphs or so, share their challenges and/or new adventures. If you would be interested drop my a line on my blog - you can use the contact form. I ...

CHAPTER II

Written by: barberoberts, on 12/31/2011
From my blog: www.universalwomen.net As the Quest continues her voyage, I am finding myself in uncharted waters. It is only now, at this time in my life, am I consenting to walk through doors that I would normally have been too frightened to see what was on the other side. But now I can see that I have been being prepared; prepared to develop my talents and skills and am now ready to take the risk and expose the real me to the world.I've prayed and listened. I've sea...

Soul Food Needed

Written by: Cherise Wyneken, on 12/29/2011
SOUL FOOD NEEDEDAs a senior citizen I began thinking about how I could pass on something of value to children and grandchildren before I pass on. Besides what I have experienced myself, the media often points out the decline of interest in church membership and attendance or the inclination to hop from one church to another, looking perhaps for more than dogmatic structures.As a grandmother I began wondering where that turn of events leaves our sons and daughters and...

Could a Mouse Talk to God?

Written by: Cherise Wyneken, on 12/28/2011
The story is about a project I, as a grandparent am working on to help needy lonely abandoned children. It is about a little mouse nick-named Spacey because he was always looking out into space and wondering about things. So when he heard NASA was taking on animal volunteers for one of its first space trips, he signed up, hoping to find the way to God out there. But the spaceship lands by accident in Africa and now he must find his way home. Through his experiences with s...

WABI-SABI

Written by: barberoberts, on 12/01/2011
The Japanese view of life embraced. A simple aestheticthat grew stronger as inessentials were eliminatedand trimmed away.
"What do you want?" , he asks."Peace, peace and tranquility", she replies.I'm becoming more reflective in my mid years. I think about almost everything and the importance of each thought; the importance of my surroundings, my existence in this world. I weigh each activity and determine if it's just being busy, or being pu...

Holiday Memories Made to Last

Written by: Ruth, on 12/01/2011
As a grandma, the holidays with family are so important to me. Each year comes and goes, and some how I manage to not take any pictures. I take my camera to holiday partys, my childrens homes, basically every where, yet I never remember to actually pull it out and use it. So this year I am making a promise to myself, I WILL TAKE PICTURES!I decided to do some research on things I can do with my photos to encourage myself to take some. I came across [url=http://www.anrdo...

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