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family

…and you will be “right” and happy…a note from my grandmother to my mom

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ART 5364, family, feminism, gender, mom, mundane ramblings, performitivity

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mundane ramblings

On the inside cover of the 699 yellow paged hard bound tome of Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Ettiquette: A Guide to Gracious Living I found the following note to my mom from her mother dated 1957: May this answer all...

At 84 priorities are in order — they may involve chocolate shakes and onion rings

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mundane ramblings

two magnets, one mom, and a refrigerator door

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death, family, flash, flash nonfiction, mom, spring 2015

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creative nonfiction, personal essay, writings

The ivory soap bar carved into an owl when I was in kindergarten sat yellowing by the guest bathroom sink, unused, until seven months before my mom’s passing. I have subsequently culled the stashed remains of all my early art,...

the collapse of stories in release

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9/11, death, family, gram, marital dissolution

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Two magnets, one mom, and a refrigerator door

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academic textabation, family, flash, mundane ramblings, nonfiction

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

Your eyes shift down from their low casting across the long table’s surface to the one with blush burned cheeks. With eyes averting, you wait for something small, something smart, worth the wasted while. Waiting. Waiting. My cheeks burn all...

it just has to be genetic; tha is my story and I am sticking to it!

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dad, family, mom, tongue waggling

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kathy wash 2012

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mundane ramblings, original blog

not sure which way it is passed, mother to daughter, or daughter to mother. I am, however going to claim a genetic disposition toward gooberhood. 0

a blessing
may each year be better than the one that lay before it

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family, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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may you listen to your longing to be free. may the frames of your belonging be large enough for the dreams of your soul. may you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart that something...

genetic disposition for diet coke runs in the family

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kathy wash 2012

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I cannot be blamed for this one.0

grams stay with you even when gone.

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kathy wash 2012

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thinking about my gram. it’s been a year since she gracefully let go into her leap from this realm to the other. miss her being here.0

landed

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family, hermitage

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kathy wash 2012

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din with dad and a gorgeous night drive home c0

have a good day

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family, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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I hope you find the gift of breath, the sky rich with blue, the air crisp with the cool December 10th morning, that you find peace in the green that grows wild even in the city and joy in your...

I shot my parents today without going postal.
well, they will go postal
after they get printed for Christmas cards.

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kathy wash 2012

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I’d tell you what my mom and dad said to get themselves laughing but then I’d have to kill you because omg its just wrong at their age and MY parents!0

Monsters in the attic

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family, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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I noticed this before but especially the last three years as I watch people construct monsters in their mental attics. Why do most of us do this? Actually I haven’t met anyone who does not do this to some degree....

happy almost father’s day, padre!!

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kathy wash 2012

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happy birthday mom.

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kathy wash 2012

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I hate hematomas on my tibialis anterior. ouch!

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art, family, mundane ramblings, process

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kathy wash 2012

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I over work my art; I over work my body; ouch. rough cut 4×4 oak hurts when it bounces to the ground grazing my shin. I have never figured out how it is my jeans don’t rip but what is...

i feel like a rat to the glittery!

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family, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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my mom’s antique (great?) grandmother’s junk, oops, I mean fine costume, jewelry, that, I really like. I’ve always been an unjewelry person, but I really like all these glitteries. I can’t decide if it is the ancestral emotional umbilical cord...

hmmm. cough. blah.

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family, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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when you finally, after looking at the house warming gift your mom has had sitting on the kitchen counter for a little over a decade, decide to open it and cook its contents, hmm, well cough, blah, hack. so I...

stuff dating back to 1796
found in my gram’s collection of things

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family, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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Found in family bible my gram had that she received from previous generations, bible dating 1858. 0

then–circa 1964; now–summer 2010

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kathy wash 2012

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photo my grandmother had, circa 1964 those are not freckles across my nose, but grime (outside playing grime) photo i have, summer 2010 those are not shadows across my nose, chin, forehead and upper lip, but grime (outside playing art...