Archive for the ‘Life in Yesterday’s Clothes’ Category
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The fictional oral history of Flossie Pearl Pemberton in 1920
01 Jun 2017Introduce yourself, please. I’m Flossie Pemberton, born in 1890 in Benton, Illinois. I give private piano lessons and care for…
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Dale Carnegie’s timeless brand rocks on
20 May 2017Thirty years ago, someone gave me a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. I…
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What grandma knew: let your parenting be firm, but sweet as pie
15 May 2017Your children will always remember the things you say to them in the heat of a battle. Guard your tongue,…
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10 rules for life, drawn from the golf course
27 Apr 2017You don’t have to play golf to admire the beauty of a course or the elegance of a game that…
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What I learned from my tiny house rental
18 Feb 2017When people ask me about my hobbies, I say this: I golf, I read, I sew, I blog and ……
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Circa Now: The State of Women’s Clubs
08 Oct 2016One of the things my mother-in-law left behind when she died this summer was a paid-up membership to the Dayton…
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Circa Now: Vintage Linens
20 Aug 2016I woke up this rainy Saturday morning in grief. My husband was gone for the weekend. My work was mostly…
