Category: Memoires
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Cover page? Which one looks best?
At last! I am nearly ready to print my book. It is going to be about my time still in the Netherlands. We immigrated to South Africa in the beginning of 1952. My sixth birthday happened on the ship. I remember a few snippets from my early time in the Netherlands. I went back in […]
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Writing + Memoirs: My bedrooms
Our fold up beds had curtains at the front. When we were in bed we could close the curtains and played that we were in a tent. =====++++===== Words: bedroom, holiday, teasing, excitement, post I used the word bedroom for my Friday It’s Write Easy at our library. A bedroom is an important room in […]
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Writing + Memoir: House sitting an old dog called Meggie
I did house sitting for four weeks which ended Sunday, August 21. I cared for a sixteen- year-old Border Collie named Meggie. I wrote the following about Meggie for my writing group on Friday. Doef, doef, doef, swoosh Doef, doef, doef, swoosh Doef, doef, doef swoosh From kitchen to the bedroom. Bump, bump, around. Doef, […]
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Heritage: The Daily Post Photo Challenge
Ben Huberman says at: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/heritage/ This week, share a photo that channels a living tradition, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. HERITAGE I do not know if it was my father who started the photo scrapbook or if my grandmother/father had started it. After both, my parents had passed my younger sister gave me […]
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Motorbike experience: Memoirs
May 5, 2017. It’s write Easy. Every Friday I join a writing group and write anecdotes from my past. We usually get six words for the week. We pick one word or more and write about it. My word was motorcycle. Some people, when they are young, love to show off by having a better […]
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Describing a person: Memoires
I described my mother and my father for my writing group in the local Library. Both descriptions are of my parents in the hospital before they passed away. My Father passed in 1994 and my mother in 2006. Mum in hospital Frail and bony hands were on top of the blanket. She taught us that […]
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