by MarianBeaman | Apr 20, 2013 | Family / Nostalgia, Uncategorized
Beauty in Jars I Yesterday morning, Mom assessing my cosmetics on her bathroom vanity: “What are you doing with all that stuff?” She doesn’t wait for an answer. “I wouldn’t know what to do with it all,” see adds as she eyes my jars of moisturizer, foundation,...
by MarianBeaman | Apr 15, 2013 | Family / Nostalgia, Uncategorized
On the plane from Jacksonville, Florida to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania my dark, curly-haired seat mate is playing MahJong on her iPad. She is content clicking and dragging tiles with red, green, blue curlicue Chinese letters across the screen, relaxing and whiling away...
by MarianBeaman | Apr 10, 2013 | Family / Nostalgia, Lists, Uncategorized
One day at Elizabethtown High School, a lovely girl from Mississippi with long, red locks strolled into our class a month or two into the term. We were mesmerized by her Southern drawl and relaxed manner. Her name was Jeannine Loux, a last name which she stretched out...
by MarianBeaman | Apr 4, 2013 | Family / Nostalgia, Uncategorized
Mom as a Child Mom Jiving to iPod Music My mother never had a bucket list, and if she had one, jiving to “Life is Like a Mountain Railroad” on my iPod would not have been on it. My mother grew up on a dairy farm...
by MarianBeaman | Apr 3, 2013 | Coming of Age, Uncategorized
MY STORY Wayne is good in math. He with the crew-cut and quiet, methodical ways can easily navigate math’s maze of numbers. We are both fourth graders at Rheems Elementary School. Unlike me, Wayne is a mathematical whiz; in a split second he makes sense of long...
by MarianBeaman | Mar 29, 2013 | Family / Nostalgia, Lists, Uncategorized
1. Quiet time for Mom 12 – 3 p.m. on Good Friday afternoon to correspond to part of the time Christ hung on the cross. 2. Easter jackets fully lined in pastel tweeds or plaids made by Aunt Ruthie. Easter dresses by Mom, sometimes with smocking or embroidery. 3....
