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Cousins: Vaite, Elaine, Mirimata. Tahiti, 2004. A friend and I chatted as we sipped coffee. The conversation soon tilted toward our children. As she updated me on a daughter’s family, she told me that she and her husband were instructed not to call the teenager who belonged to a son-in-law their grandson and that he was […]
Last weekend, an earnest, freckled Cub Scout approached me outside our grocery store and asked me to help with his food drive. He gave me a list of especially-needed food items for the food pantry at South County Outreach and invited me to fill up the special red plastic bag that marked “food drive food.” […]
Mosquitoes Are But an Annoyance for My Grandlittles, Praise God!Cadence, Elaine, Sawyer, Rich. Oahu’s North Shore, May, 2012. Mosquitoes Are a NuisanceYes, my daughter reacts strongly to mosquito bites, growing great big welts in no time. And yes, I’ve scratched myself to scars. And, well, yes, my grandson has used the persistent buzz of the […]
Rich, Rebecca, and Ruffles. Father’s Day, 2010. Pacific Ocean. Giveaway Day This afternoon at 5:30, my husband will escort his daughter down the aisle and present her hand to another guy. Her guy. The one who is now the most important man in her world. The one I told you about last year, when their […]
Rich, Rebecca, and Ruffles. Father’s Day, 2010. Pacific Ocean. Giveaway Day This afternoon at 5:30, my husband will escort his daughter down the aisle and present her hand to another guy. Her guy. The one who is now the most important man in her world. The one I told you about last year, when their […]
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