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A Toilet Tissue Tale, Ukraine Style

A Toilet Tissue Tale, Ukraine Style

by MarianBeaman | Jun 17, 2020 | blog, chalk drawing, Cliff Beaman artist, Education, Kiev Ukraine, Neighborhood / Environment, popular culture, Travel, Ukraine

Toilet paper and lecturer’s chalk, these were two essential items, which preceded our arrival in Kiev, Ukraine, nine years ago in April 2011. Dozens of toilet paper rolls cushioned the fragile sticks of chalk, needed for the nineteen art & music performances...
A Souper Day!

A Souper Day!

by MarianBeaman | Jan 15, 2020 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Recipes, Ukraine, Uncategorized

  Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor. ~ Marge Kennedy   Has a tub of soup or stew been bubbling away on your stove tops lately? At the...

Janet & Marian: A Tale of Two Houses

by MarianBeaman | Sep 7, 2016 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, Memory, neighborhood, Quotations, Travel, Ukraine, Uncategorized

My writer friend Janet Givens and I have both said Goodbye to houses this summer. She, to a vacation house on a canal in Chincoteague Island, Virginia, and me to our family homestead 12 miles from the beach in Jacksonville, Florida, geographically about 750 miles...

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