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Kathleen B. Boyette: October 2014
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Thursday, October 30, 2014. Nebraska sunset and moon rise the evening before Mom's ninety-first birthday:. Don't take my picture! How can I possibly be this old? Tuesday, October 28, 2014. The Richard Petty Experience at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway was part of the celebration of a friend’s birthday. I'd never been up there and never had any interest in driving a race car. Nervous beforehand, I was grinning afterwards. Snappy outfits, eh? This, from my security camera at 5:45 PM.
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Kathleen B. Boyette: November 2012
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. This evening I reset all the sprinklers to run during the day once the sun has heated the ground rather than overnight when the temps are dropping into the upper thirties. As I finished at the backyard controller I turned around to see this. Sunday, November 25, 2012. But today, a cloudless, nearly eighty degree late November day, it was calm and innocent and a lovely spot for an afternoon hour-long saunter with the dogs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Kathleen B. Boyette: January 2015
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. From my journal thirty-nine years ago. And so, it begins. January 20, 1976. Today Kathy Romano took me to the Costume Shop in Taylor Theatre. I was introduced to the designer, Zoe Brown, and given a costume to build for Twelfth Night. Worked for 3.5 hours tonight on it-love it. January sunset, Las Vegas, from my roof. Monday, January 19, 2015. Mom’s brain inexplicably shifted into overdrive on a Friday evening two weeks ago. Cindy raced to the care home.
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Kathleen B. Boyette: December 2015
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Saturday, December 26, 2015. In the early nineteen nineties my phone calls to my parents increased from weekly to daily. Then twice daily: morning and early evening. Except when I was overseas. In England, China, India and Egypt, lengthy and descriptive emails with photographs took the place of my calls. Daddy and Mom printed the emails and photos, kept them in a thick binder to share with visitors. Until Daddy became ill and I was waking him unnecessarily. The last weeks of his life...
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Kathleen B. Boyette: January 2014
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Sunday, January 19, 2014. Despite all the changes, despite the massive increase in traffic and habitation, this remains a very quiet and stable enclave. Two of my neighbors have been my neighbors since I moved in and two others for at least five years. I’m able to leave on business trips knowing, because it’s happened, that if anything is amiss at the house someone will phone me. Then there’s the loss of yet another small piece of what made my little world feel safe. My dog...Though ...
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Kathleen B. Boyette
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Saturday, November 21, 2015. Letters from the past. Unexpectedly, the first letter in the pile bore Mom’s handwriting. I gasped and felt tears forming. Mom’s handwriting is so dear to me. It’s messy and slanted and cursive and it means home and love and connection. She has been unable to muster the concentration to write anything, now, for some time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). ATA Dry Stone Walling. Letters from the past. The friend with whom I have.
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Kathleen B. Boyette: July 2013
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Saturday, July 20, 2013. Enjoyed standing outside underneath the patio overhang watching the storm last night: very high winds and several inches of rain in a very short time. One wind gust was reported to be 71 miles an hour. Did a walk around as the rain ended to find this:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). ATA Dry Stone Walling. Enjoyed standing outside underneath the patio over.
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Monday, December 12, 2016. The care home in which Mom lives sits on property adjoined on two sides by corn fields. Empty of tall green stalks now, light tan with only dry husks lying about, the fields rather disappear from thought. But not from flocks of migrating geese. Stepping out of the rental car, stiff from three hours of driving, I search the late afternoon overcast skies for sight of the geese I can hear. It takes a moment to work out the mystery. The geese are not flying.
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Kathleen B. Boyette: December 2012
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Saturday, December 8, 2012. Yesterday the wind turned. The north breezes blew and outside my office window swarms of golden leaves swished past creating a Morse Code of clicking as they bounced against one another en route to the ground—like many tiny someones dancing in teeny tap shoes. The result: my tree is partially denuded and my leaves are populating not only my yard but the neighborhood as well. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). ATA Dry Stone Walling.
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Kathleen B. Boyette: May 2013
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Kathleen B. Boyette. Monday, May 20, 2013. Returning to Nebraska to spend a few more days with Mom—from the exquisite luxury of the Trump Soho hotel to Motel 6 in Chadron. Clouds in South Dakota. The beginning of, and the only visible bit of, a rainbow. Nebraska. Celebrity Apprentice press line—after party at Cipriani on 42nd Street, Manhattan. With Penn and Teller's manager. Celebrity Apprentice finale—live from Skirball Center in Manhattan. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). ATA Dry Stone Walling.