Thanks to Marianna Paulson over at the Auntie Stress blog and her recent post, "Capture the Ordinary," I was inspired to draft this brief memory post. When I was a child and throughout my teens, Dad and Mom whisked our family of six (four daughters) off on many adventures, by way of my hard-working father's Trans World […]
Happy Birthday America
Happy Birthday America. For over 200 years you have represented all that mankind hopes to be. Through struggle and strife, by both inward and outward forces, your banner continues to proudly wave. You have suffered unjustly at the hands of those whose envy of what you represent cannot be quenched except to try and destroy […]
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Eulogy for Grandmother: Observations With Love
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, in collaboration with her sisters, Susan Barrett Hensel, Janet Barrett Pallett and Katherine Barrett De Boer. Written for the eulogy at our grandmother's funeral in February 2000. Glenn Barrett Howard's grandchildren are grateful to have had our grandmother around until her 96th year. We know we are lucky. However, that does not make […]
The Roaring Zone
The "roaring zone" describes the sounds that surround us every day. We all live in a roaring zone. Sometimes we are tuned in; sometimes not. By Rob Poindexter, Partner / Writer I Want To Write For You
Throwback Thursday :: Family Vacation to Lisbon, Portugal
It was circa 1978, and our family traversed the globe for yet another European adventure – this time to Lisbon, Portugal. Thanks to my father's tenure as an inspector for Trans World Airlines (TWA), we regularly took off for such historically enchanting trips. I've spliced together a few memories from one of the DVDs my folks created […]