Newsletter
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By juliezavala in My Turn
Yesterday when I got home from work my dad and I drove out to Port Lavaca just to be going somewhere. As we drove past plowed fields, daddy commented on how nice and even they looked. He told me that ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
Dad and I brought a kitten home today. I'd post a picture but the cat is living up to his name, "Dasher." As soon as we let him out of his carrying box he dashed straight for my bedroom. He ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
This dad of mine is amazing. He is up for anything. It's like toward the end of his years he's decided to try everything and give it his all. Today we bowled again using the X-Box and he played even ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
My Dad was sitting in his chair in the living room, sound asleep when I got up this morning. Waiting for Santa Claus? I think Santa had already come and gone since the cookies that were under the cake dome ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
Yesterday morning after my husband Robert took out the trash, he forgot to lock the front door. As Robert was sitting down to read the paper, Daddy breezed past him and out the front door saying, "See you later!" After ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
Today daddy's sister Velma and her husband Dick drove from Liberty to Victoria to visit Daddy. Aunt Velma is such a southern belle type woman with great manners and poise. I have always been a little intimidated by her. I ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
When I was a little girl, maybe 4 years old, my Mom and Dad let me spend the night at my Uncle and Aunt's house. It was fun while I was playing with my cousins, but when bedtime came I ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
Tonight, for the first time in a long time, Daddy decided it was time to go home. I told him his car was in the shop being fixed (Lord, please forgive me for lying). He still insisted he needed his ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
I was trying to remember last Thanksgiving. I remember that I wasn't home in Victoria with my husband. I must have been in Jasper, Texas with my Mom and Dad but I swear I can't remember. My husband Robert, my ...
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By juliezavala in My Turn
This was a good day. And that's saying a lot after having only slept three hours or less the night before. It wasn't my Dad's fault - he slept the whole night through. It was my own starstruck self (correction: ...