Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Family Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged Applegate genealogy, Dayton Ohio, Illi genealogy, Illie genealogy, Mother's Day, Oklahoma, Pawnee on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
This page of the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day 2006 is devoted to my great-grandmother, Lillian Illie (or Illi) Applegate. She married my great-grandfather, John Black Applegate, son of Emily Jane Reddick Applegate.
Great-Grandma (or Grandma-Up-Dayton, as she was known long after she’d moved from the Dayton area), was also my godmother. I [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged altered books, altered photo album, Applegate genealogy, Brown County Ohio, Creager genealogy, Emily Jane Applegate, Emily Jane Reddick, Reddick genealogy on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another page in the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day last year:
This page features Emily Jane (Reddick) Applegate. She’s my maternal great-great-grandmother, mother of John Black Applegate, my grandfather’s father. Her mother was a Creager; she married Joseph Martin Applegate.
I didn’t have a good photo of her when she was younger. All [...]
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In this post I described the birthday cake that was inflicted upon me this past week. As I was writing that, I remembered the only other birthday on which I was truly and totally grossed out.
It was about eleven years ago. We were in the dining room of Mom and Virgil’s old place near Harrison. [...]
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I had a very nice birthday today. I arrived at work to find a signed card from my editorial teammates and a Busken donut, a great way to start the day. The drive to work was gorgeous; the rain had let up but the wetness gave everything a watercolor effect in the soft morning light [...]
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Posted in Looking Back, Uncategorized, tagged 1995, April 19, Field of Chairs, Gates of Time, Murrah Federal Building, National Federation of State Poetry Societies Convetion, NFSPS 2007 Conventon, Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City National Memorial, The Vacant Chair on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
“We shall meet but we shall miss him.
There will be one vacant chair.
We shall linger to caress him,
while we breathe our ev’ning prayer.”
(”The Vacant Chair,” a Civil War song; words by Henry Washburn, melody by George F. Root.)
There are 168 vacant chairs at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. Vacant of human presence, that is; the [...]
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I slept through the earthquake this morning (i.e., tremor; the epicenter of the actual earthquake was considerably farther west). My apartment is a combined ground floor/basement unit (I have to go down steps to reach it, but it opens out onto a patio and a wide lawn), so maybe that prevented me from being awakened by [...]
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Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged birthday celebrations, celebrating simple joys, celebrating the little things, National Poetry Month, National Secretary's Day on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
As I said in this post, April is my birthday month. April often is also Easter month, so there are two big celebrations right there.
At various times over the years, other celebrations have added layers to the party atmosphere of April for me. And, frankly, sometimes keeping up with all the parties and commemorations made [...]
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