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About insider53

Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Friend, Writer, Voracious Reader, and so much more.

Grandma, Why Is The Moon Pink…

This photo was taken from the front yard of a friend of a friend’s home in Mineral Wells,Texas and it fascinated me and inspired me to ask “Why”. I love things that move me to investigate and learn. There is … Continue reading

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Video Wednesday… The Cowans

Once again it’s wordless video Wednesday and today’s video is Francis & Marlow Cowan (married 62 years) playing an impromptu recital together in the atrium of the Mayo Clinic.  Marlow is 90, Frances is almost 84. They don’t own a … Continue reading

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Instinct or Extinct…

This is what my daughter ’79 gave me for Mother’s Day. Lovely isn’t it. It is The Instinct, a cell phone from Sprint. I would like to thank my child for her thoughtful and well meaning gift. She loves me … Continue reading

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Memories of Mother…

My Mother’s name was Mary and like her name she lived a plain and uneventful life without thunder, her birth however was another story. She was born in 1927 in a tent city in Bowlegs Oklahoma during a smallpox epidemic. She was born into extreme poverty and was premature at 4½ lbs. My grandmother had been caring for her sisters and their children who had smallpox. Continue reading

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