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Category: Family

Reflections and Reflecting in Oklahoma

My sister and I went to Tulsa for New Year’s. Oklahoma is her next-to-last state (in the Great Rigney Family States Saga; she’ll get New Mexico on her own this fall). In typical

Published January 2, 2012
Categorized as Family, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel, Uncategorized

Tattoos, Inside and Out

Do you ever think about getting a tattoo? It’s just never been something that appeals to me. I don’t even like to have blood drawn, much less let someone stick me with ink-filled

Published December 27, 2011
Categorized as Family, Friendship, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Uncategorized

Simbang Gabi Day 7: Our House

“This is our house,” the priest said in his homily at today’s pre-dawn Mass. “We are the children of God.” And what a house it is! The Montgomery girls did the readings this morning. I felt like a

Published December 22, 2011
Categorized as Catholicism, Family, Friendship, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality

“Nothing Is Ever Lost”

I thought it was lost, my autographed copy of Kathleen Norris’s The Middle of the World, a collection of her poetry I bought in December 1982 at a reading. But I found it last week as

Published November 12, 2011
Categorized as Family, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Writing

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