Tag Archives: memories

I’ll Always Be Thankful to Frisch’s Big Boy

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Coming East

The RemembeRed memoir assignment this week,  from Write on Edge,  is to write about a memory of ourselves WITH someone else. Word limit, 600 or less. A way to start: His/her name was ______________________ and looking back now, I realize…. I … Continue reading →

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How It All Started

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Coming East

I thought it might be appropriate, the first day after my one-year anniversary, to replay my very first post.  I went back to see how many people had actually read it, and the number was a whopping seven.  Since then … Continue reading →

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Food, Glorious Food!

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Coming East

Yesterday I found out that Virginia Beach is finally going to get a Whole Foods Market.  In fact, it will be built so close to my house, I will be able to walk to it.  I was so excited, I … Continue reading →

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Name That Tune

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Coming East

Crepe paper streamers dangled at the entrance to the Passion Pit, the name my brother and I dubbed the finished basement we used for our party room when we were in high school.  It was a misnomer because nothing more … Continue reading →

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Where Did Those Memories Go?

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Coming East

This week’s Red Dress Club‘s Red Writing Hood prompt is  a picture prompt about cameras, and it is limited to 400 words. It can be fiction or non-fiction.  I chose non-fiction.   Nineteen fifty-nine was an important year.  Alaska and … Continue reading →

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These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Coming East

I always loved that song Julie Andrews sang in The Sound of Music.  You know the one about her favorite things? I was thinking about that the other day as I was going through drawers and closets to find things … Continue reading →

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A Mohair Moment

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Coming East

This post comes from a weekly memoir writing prompt provided by The Red Dress Club.  Write about an embarrassing moment. I have always loved storms, contrary to most children.  I remember standing at the screen door of my grandparents’ house … Continue reading →

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Walking to Rosie’s

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Coming East

Money jingles in your pocket. I grasp mine, fist tight, short legs pumping to match your stride. We walk past manicured lawns, sweet scent of summer flowers, porch swings empty in the afternoon heat. You reach for my hand at … Continue reading →

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The Most Memorable Field Trip

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Coming East

This post comes from a weekly memoir writing prompt provided by The Red Dress Club:  Write a memoir post about a memorable school trip. Word limit is 600. In May of my senior year in high school, 1966, I had … Continue reading →

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Crossing the Bar

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Coming East

There’s an old New England saying, “A sea child dies on land,” and my sister, Karen, was definitely a sea child.  She was born and raised on the Connecticut shore but moved to Texas as an adult and seldom got … Continue reading →

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