you really can't have everything

Here is the first in a series of 3 videos I am making that feature excerpts from my essay “Things to Remember Not to Forget.”  The essay was just published in an anthology called “Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond,” edited by Andrea N. Richesin.  The photos are from an amazing site of “American vernacular photography” (i.e., found snapshots)  called Square America.

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   mary says:

   April 14, 2009 at 3:11 pm

   OMG. No words. I love, love, love this.

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   Gayle says:

   April 14, 2009 at 6:46 pm

   Particularly touching since today is my oldest daughter’s 15th b-day. *sigh* and my own mother hasn’t spoken to me in almost 3 years

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   angie says:

   April 15, 2009 at 1:32 am

   What Mary said.

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   Katherine Center says:

   April 15, 2009 at 10:49 am

   OMG, Mary! THANK YOU for posting to Kirtsy!!!

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   detes says:

   April 15, 2009 at 12:32 pm

   Love the photos and the thoughts are so true.

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   wyn says:

   April 15, 2009 at 12:58 pm

   Katherine, this is beautiful, thanks for sharing! Love the words and the images! Make more of these, you are so talented at so many things!

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   Ray says:

   April 15, 2009 at 3:27 pm

   wow. i don’t know what to say. it is true.

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   Shelley Stein says:

   April 16, 2009 at 3:08 am

   Lovely.

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   Laura says:

   April 16, 2009 at 3:56 am

   This was neat. Thanks for sharing it! Hey, I just found this post via Kirtsy, and then when I saw your book in the sidebar here, I realized who you are! I’m reading your book right now – I just started it today. I’m really enjoying it, too! So, hello!

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    Lizzie says:

    April 21, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    Love it.

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    Will Sultan says:

    April 23, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    I was been fascinated with your profile, but i hardly have none of your book. Hoping one day someday i will have one.

    Sultan.

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