History, Real Life, and Faith
We revisited our personal history many years ago. We drove across the country in a Volkswagen bus visiting friends, relatives and our family history from Los Angeles to Maine. My favorite spot required a weekend visit because I longed to spend time revisiting our older boys’ birthplace: Groton, Connecticut. Home in Connecticut My life in those years revolved around our home…
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I started crafting my life story for a select audience early in life. A parallel story line followed me through my growing up years, but I never told the stories until years later. Once I graduated from college and left Los Angeles, I never lived closer than 350 miles to my parents. My father used to gaze through his telescope…
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Have you ever been to a ball? As the chief engineer on the oldest submarine in the Atlantic Ocean, my husband had a number of duties I never understood. As a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, he had gentlemanly responsibilities that didn’t always make sense–to him. For example, the Navy ball. He’s never been a big dancer, but attendance, particularly…
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How Navy wives care for each other–both in sickness and in death.
Introducing Chinese teenagers to America!
One day we exchanged our normal life for a foreign one with a foreign exchange student from Brazil. It began innocently enough, both times, with a phone call–but isn’t that how life changing things often occur? A routine day suddenly explodes into a change that alters your life and rearranges your schedule the very next day. Fortunately, we’re flexible, which…
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