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“Leah, hurry up the bus will be here any minute.” My mother yells up from the kitchen. I shove my towel and bathing suit into my backpack and jam my feet into my sneakers. As I leave my room I complete my mental checklist for camp. Sun lotion, check. Flip flops, check. Extra set of [...]
Filed by Mr. Hillman at March 31st, 2008 under Wait until your father gets home! Tales of family...
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On a Monday afternoon in November my Mother told me that my grandmother, Gloria, was not feeling very well and we decided to go her nursing home to bring her favorite dessert, chocolate éclairs. My Grandmother did not feel like eating the éclairs, which was the first sign to me that something was wrong. My [...]
Filed by Mr. Hillman at March 31st, 2008 under Wait until your father gets home! Tales of family...
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Dad…Dad…DAAAAAAAAD! Come on. let’s go, You PROMISED!” I whine. “Alright, alright, I’m coming” dad sighs and stops what he’s doing. I run down the stairs to get the popcorn ready, “You get the food, I’ll start the fire.” Dad says as he lumbers into the family room. Its winter break, my dad and I have [...]
Filed by Mr. Hillman at March 29th, 2008 under Wait until your father gets home! Tales of family...
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He would chase us around the house, through the living room, through the kitchen, through the dining room, through the foyer, through the office, and back again. He would tickle us until we couldn’t breathe. We would attempt to come up with clever plots to distract him from catching us, but they never worked. We [...]
Filed by Mr. Hillman at March 29th, 2008 under Wait until your father gets home! Tales of family...
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It was getting dark outside and dinner was almost ready; Dad would be home soon.
When I heard the rumble of the garage opening, it was time to take action. There were two different ways I would greet my dad at night when he finally got home from work. Option one was to wait in [...]
Filed by Mr. Hillman at March 28th, 2008 under Wait until your father gets home! Tales of family...
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Christmas in Peabody, Massachusetts is unlike the traditional close-knit, small family get together I often hear my friends talk about when the holiday season approaches. They reminisce about Grandma’s homemade cookies and Grandpa telling stories by the fireside. This sort of Christmas holiday, however, is one I am a stranger to. Being a Greek family, [...]
Filed by Mr. Hillman at March 27th, 2008 under Wait until your father gets home! Tales of family...
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“Hello, how are you? Where is the baby!” This is what all my relatives said to me as I opened the door, letting them into the house for my new baby brothers naming ceremony. I was wearing a bright orange-yellow pavadai with my hair in its usual pigtails, bangles jingling on my arm, anklets [...]
Filed by Mr. Hillman at March 26th, 2008 under Wait until your father gets home! Tales of family...
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