Confessions of a Memory Hoarder

Along with routinely sharing a great deal of storytelling throughout my youth, my parents left me with many family photo albums and boxes of both our family and distant family memories (including letters, scrapbooks, military artifacts, and more). My mom even wrote a short autobiography in her later years, which is packed with her lifelong stories, and is such a treasure for me.

Throughout my life I have always been one to collect and preserve memories. Some people might even say I’m a “memory hoarder” and they would probably be right.

Ah, memories, and the stories behind them. They were important to my mom and they are important to me.

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Goodbye City Life! Farming is the Life for Me!

I haven’t written much for my blog over the past few years. I guess I’ve been busy.

I did write a book and have continued with my freelance writing. But I’m a passionate journalist—who loves writing about my own observations in life—so it seems strange I haven’t been more focused on this blog.

Yes… I know I’m a digital dinosaur, so perhaps that’s why I am so seemingly far behind. Or… maybe it was all the after-effects of covid…or almost being evacuated during fire season….or perhaps my distraction was somehow related to my finding my birth mom (who promptly dissed me).

Ahhhh….maybe THAT is why I have shied away from writing more?

Nah….

Actually, the major distraction in my life over the past few years was selling our family home of some 30 years… downsizing all our belongings… and then moving.

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