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My Lovely Grandmother

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Here’s a picture of my lovely ninety-six year old grandmother from earlier today (courtesy of my aunt). Grandma Jane can’t always remember my name, but she still smokes, flirts, drinks scotch, wears a beautiful manicure, and outwits anyone naive enough to think they can figure out what’s going on in that beautiful head of hers.

my lovely grandmother

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Merry Christmas, friends!

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Joy to the world. And candy canes, and eggnog, and brightly lit trees … Merry Christmas, friends! Melissa Studdard is on Facebook and Twitter. She writes on Johntext Texas. Visit her personal homepage www.melissastuddard.com and find out about events and her books and contact her on http://melissastuddard.com/contact/ More information is available on Wikipedia.

Share A Poem With You

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because meals are memorials
that teach us how to move,
history moves in us as we raise
our voices and then our glasses
to pour a little out for those
who poured out everything for us,
we pour ourselves for them,
so they can eat again.

From “Grace” by Jake Adam York, RIP (12/12)

This week, instead of memorizing a poem for the Mnemosyne Weekly, I’ll be spending time with family. But I’d still like to share a poem with you. No matter what your faith or what you’re celebrating, this poem highlights mealtime as a way of honoring both the past and the present, both those with whom we are sitting and those who are no longer here. Such a lovely, universal message–

See the full poem here: tinyurl.com/cn59693

The painting is “One of the Family” by Frederick Cotman (1880)

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A Talk With Jacqueline Sheehan

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RJ Jeffreys: Please join my dear friend and consummate interviewer, Melissa Studdard, tonight from 7 – 7: 30 PM EST, for a talk with writer and psychologist Jacqueline Sheehan. They’ll be discussing Sheehan’s emotionally-riveting work, with a focus on the novel Picture This, released just this past May as a sequel to the New York … Read more