Tag Archives: stories

The Old Button Suitcase

Posted on March 28, 2023 by hernibs

This old suitcase has become the repository for my mother’s tall cookie tin full of buttons, my sister’s mother-in-law’s German cookie tin full of buttons, my daughter’s glass jars of button collections and now for my square candy tins of … Continue reading →

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Sharing Stories

Posted on September 30, 2022 by hernibs

Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each other’s journey, but knowing that the journey we make will be our own. ~ Gloria Steinem

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Stories

Posted on September 13, 2022 by hernibs

We tell stories to know each other so that we will not fear each other. Hear each others stories so we can trust one another. ~ Wendall Barry

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Human Stories

Posted on November 14, 2020 by hernibs

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ~ Willa Cather (1873 – 1947) American Writer

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Untold Truth

Posted on January 10, 2018 by hernibs

Like bad novels some people’s stories are half truth but mostly fiction, names changed to protect the guilty. Secrets hidden behind lies, deceit and pretense. Wasted stories with no ending at all, just more lies to bury the past deeper … Continue reading →

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Thwarted

Posted on January 9, 2018 by hernibs

Like an opera star who trips on the top step of the stage, or a pianist who sits at a locked piano, a guitar with broken strings some stories will never be told because truth is too scary, uncertain … Continue reading →

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Moving

Posted on March 4, 2016 by hernibs

Home is where we store our stories, till that story ends. Boxes full, we start new pages, find new homes, new friends. We leave behind the faintest essence of our story’s theme what we loved above all else an outline … Continue reading →

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Shaped By Truth

Posted on December 26, 2014 by hernibs

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Telling Everything I Know

Posted on August 25, 2014 by hernibs

“You don’t need to tell everything you know.” I’d be talking away telling a story about something, Mom would cough and I’d stop my story. That cough could even censor dad in the middle of a sermon. Maybe that’s why … Continue reading →

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