Kim's Stories

Grandmothering

March 29, 2012

I wonder what kind of grandmother I’ll be known as to my grandchildren. I had 2 grandmothers, but our relationship was not the typical relationship. I hardly knew my grandmothers. One grandmother left her family when my mother was 6 months old, leaving also 3 boys under the age of 6, and her husband. She [...]

A Baby Changes Everything

October 12, 2011

Our first grand-baby Olive, the newest family member, is another momentous knot in the family rope that starts at the beginning of time and ends at the end of time. In our ancestry charts, we now need to add more connecting lines and another deeper level. It adds another layer of complexity to our family [...]

Meeting my Grandmother

October 16, 2010

I didn’t really get to know my Grandmother – my mother’s mother – until I was 26. It was my second occasion ever to see her. The whole story is quite complicated. My Grandmother Ruby left her family when my mother was 6 months old. She abandoned her 3 sons and husband to run off [...]

The Basement

September 30, 2010

Our basement was an integral part of my childhood. It was the place in our home that I could get away from everyone and experience solitude. It was my time in my childhood to figure out who I was as a person with some genuine thinking and reflection. It was also a place to have [...]

Saturday night

September 17, 2010

For a family that didn’t have much money (See My Dad – the Original Organic Farmer ), we sure did have fun on Saturday nights. Friday nights were taken up with football or basketball (See Football Boogie ). Saturday nights were reserved for playing cards or board games, sometimes with just our family, my aunt [...]

Twinkle In His Eye

September 2, 2010

I recognize fun. In the transition between a person’s thought and the first inkling that something spontaneous is about to happen, I am on full alert to participate. I’m drawn to it like a magnet. And if anyone else has that predisposition for fun, I can tell it in the first minute of meeting them. [...]

The Great Neighborhood Water Fight

August 25, 2010

They say Ohio is a great place to raise corn, pigs, and children. I absolutely loved the way that I grew up. The neighborhood was our playground, and the plethora of neighbor kids – who ALL owned bicycles – were our playmates. We didn’t take Family Vacations during our summer breaks, but every summer day [...]

One Sure Thing

August 1, 2010

We knew each other before we were born. Or so it seems. The way we think alike, our inherent understanding of each other, our imprint on each other’s souls has been there since the beginning of time. Our families lived 3 miles apart from each other when we were growing up in a little farming [...]

The Expression on Grandma’s Face

June 30, 2010

My paternal grandmother Edith married when she was 14, on October 4, 1911. Her husband – my grandfather, Harry – was 38, 24 years old years older than his bride. My grandfather is the in the front row on the left. My grandmother, his new bride – is in the second row standing, second from [...]

Father’s Day

June 20, 2010

My Dad died 28 years ago. He had a massive heart attack when he was 60 and lived for a couple of days after it. My husband and I hit the road to drive back home as soon as we heard that he was in the hospital, but we got there right after he died. [...]

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