extended family
All about how to stay connected, strengthen ties and talk politics with your big, happy extended family.
Aunt Bea
Tara ran up the stairs to her Aunt Bea’s cottage holding the book size package the attorney gave to her close to her chest. She had left the attorney’s office a half hour earlier discussing the auction sale of her late Aunt’s house. She was to removed anything she wished to keep and let the rest for the future auction.
By Debra Frantz6 years ago in Families
My Sister, My Aunt and My first Best Friends
Today while I spoke with my sister Antoinette, I showed here what I have shared so far in the story I am telling here. Antoinette is my half sister and an integral person in my storied beginnings. She was tied into this whirlwind of a household I grew up in early. I was nearly 5 by the time my family made it to Jacksonville. Antoinette was going on 11 in fifth grade. We had the typical sibling relationship between a little brother and big sister. We loved each other as much as we annoyed each other, as you would expect from a tween and her kid brother. I will admit I was a pain in her ass in those years though because I was spoiled as fuck as the baby of the kids (sorry sis).
By Anthony Anthem6 years ago in Families
Sketches
Annie searched the lists for several days until she found the entry. When she had begun, she certainly hadn’t expected a reward. Still, she had wondered to find something so precious in a thrift store, and she had decided that someone might want it. So, Annie Jacobson skimmed through website classifieds, convinced she would find a desperate soul searching for the book.
By Carmi Cason6 years ago in Families
Klassic Kitchenware
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By klassic kitchenware6 years ago in Families
The Notebook
People die. It’s just a fact. Nothing can stop it from happening. Nothing can really prepare you for it. And surprisingly nothing can prepare you for having to clean up someone‘s life mess. That is what I have been asked to do, clean up someone’s house that just passed. Not just any someone, but my uncle.
By Kathy Stephens6 years ago in Families
Tattered Legacy
I was sitting here trying to wrap my brain around my Uncle Joe passing away in the other room, here on the farm. Having a cup of coffee, calming down, while hospice finishes taking care of everything. In the last moments of his life, he handed me his tattered black book, that he carried on him everyday of his life since he was 16. This book went to Vietnam, and hundreds of other places in the world with him. He wrote thoughts, prayers, people and things he collected over his travels. As I sit and reflect on his last words to me, "This is your legacy, its torn and tattered, but is everything to me, now it's all yours".
By Cindy Sparks6 years ago in Families
Miss Helen's
It was my first time back in Pittsburgh since I graduated in 1985. I was returning for the funeral of my dear friend and former landlord, Miss Helen. My flight landed just in time for me to get to the church for the viewing. The viewing room where Miss Helen laid in rest was packed up full of people, people that she’d taken care of over the years and welcomed into her home including myself.
By Timia Williams6 years ago in Families
Divine Interventions
Divine Edwards lived a life nothing short of traumatic. Though today she stands strong and divinely supported she would be the last to say her life struggles were neither easy nor enjoyable. From the time she returned for another life cycle she’d dealt with life's hardships trauma after another. Well into her adulthood Divine would suffer through almost anything imagined.
By SpeciallyPicked BySource6 years ago in Families
STILL STANDING
She was born the oldest of four from her mother and the middle of seven from her father. She was her parents only child together. Most of her life she felt like the black sheep in both parents’ household. It was not always that way she could remember as far back as the age of five, when children saw the good in everything and everyone. She was blessed not only to know both her grandmothers as well as her grandfather she was blessed to have her great-grandparents as a part of her life also.
By Goddess By Nature6 years ago in Families
The Black Notebook
Michael rushed out the door, late for an important meeting again. He grabbed his overcoat and threw it over his arm. It was going to be a cold one, or so the news said. The sun was shining and it felt like it was nearly forty degrees outside. Hell, there were even birds singing and chirping in the morning sunlight.
By Brandon Talbot6 years ago in Families
