All posts tagged “legacy

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Happy Birthday, Papa!

He will be 97 years old in a few days, my sweet papa. I miss him terribly—his dry sense of wit, his stoic Norwegian temperament, his way of making you feel loved without saying it. He left three years ago as quietly as he lived,… Read More

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A Lifelong Love

Today is my sweet mother’s birthday—she would have been 93 years old. Although I miss her every day, she left me with such a beautiful legacy—my love of reading. My mother was an avid reader, and I was often the happy recipient of her uncanny… Read More