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Friendship, Mummies and Loss

Posted on May 16, 2016 by veldabrotherton

    Two years ago last month I lost my lifetime friend to cancer. Memories of our days together are crowding in on me today. I find writing about things often sweetens thoughts out of the past, so bear with … Continue reading →

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Fifties Innocence

Posted on April 19, 2016 by veldabrotherton

At the age of fifteen I went to work at a drug store for the summer. In those days there was a soda fountain with stools, all upholstered in red leather and tucked under a counter of the same color. … Continue reading →

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Frog Legs and Sinking a boat

Posted on April 11, 2016 by veldabrotherton

 After my dad came home from the South Pacific and World War II, he and a couple of his buddies went together and bought a little fishing cabin on the Ninescaw River outside Wichita, Kansas where we then lived. And … Continue reading →

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A hot wind and ice cream

Posted on April 5, 2016 by veldabrotherton

Who, me? Write a memoir? Believe it or not that has been suggested. I’ve spent my writing life telling other people’s stories. Some presented as the truth, others woven into fiction. But when I reached the age of 80 earlier … Continue reading →

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Keeping Memories

Posted on June 2, 2015 by veldabrotherton

Me on Grandparent’s farm 1940 I’ve noticed something peculiar about approaching 80 years of age. More and more I dredge up memories and spend time in the past. I remember when my mother-in-law told me, as she aged she lived in … Continue reading →

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