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My Aria, My Rosebud, A few months before your birth your mother called to tell us that you were going to be a girl. “What a blessing!” I said as the images of my own two blessings surfaced in my mind. As a young woman, I used to daydream about having a little girl of [...]

            It was the Monday after the Fourth of July. Our daughter and her husband entered our front door, hugged their eight-month old baby Ariana and kissed their son Mokhta, now five-years old. “Did the “To Do List” help, Mommy?” she asked me in the kitchen where I was brewing [...]

My husband and I were waiting for the arrival of Mokhta, our grandson, when we heard our daughter’s car stop in the front of the house. I opened the front door and saw Mokhta already out of the car looking up at the crabapple tree. He turned toward us and after a moment’s pause, started [...]