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Mary Etta’s Diary: Going to the Grange
EXCERPT:
“…The diaries have a mild musty smell now and the penciled scrawling have begun to ware, but I sometimes enjoy opening the yellowed pages and reading what Nana (my great-grandmother) and her mother recorded on that day decades ago. Today I reflect on an entry by my great-great-grandmother, Mary Etta Stiles written on this day in 1940…”
I Knew Dom DeLuise When He was a Priest: A Eulogy
Now, I know what your thinking, “Dom DeLuise and Debbie Gibson? Not to mention Joshua J Masters, Phish, Bernie Sanders as a Rabbi, Ms. Vermont, and a girl from Hannah Montana?” (Yes! That’s five Hannah Montanas… six,) “I’ve got to see this movie!”
Nana’s Diary
I spent much of my youth on my great-grandmother's home. Nana llived on the family farm that had been in the Stiles family for generations. The 1977 picture of me on my pony, Snoppy has the same building as its backdrop as the 1929 photo of Nana and Grampa...
Words from La Mancha
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness! But maddest of all is to see life 'as it is'...
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