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Girl Comes Home: A Place in the Sun 1966 (c) Nita Walker Boles
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Wednesday, February 15, 2012. A Place in the Sun 1966 (c) Nita Walker Boles. The rest of our family moved first into a little two bedroom rental home near 34th Street, just down the block from our dad's sister. The dining room became my room with the addition of the curtain partition that had traveled with us from Pueblo. The boys had the small bedroom and my parents the large one. Miss Carnation, an understanding woman who patiently tolerated...
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Girl Comes Home: NBB, Queen of the Universe, or how our eldest sister saved us from ourselves (c) Nita Walker Boles
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Friday, September 16, 2011. NBB, Queen of the Universe, or how our eldest sister saved us from ourselves (c) Nita Walker Boles. Exas, lived an older S. Ina, who was, by all rights, Q. Ueen of the U. Mary remembered her well, from the time before she went away. When she heard that N. Ina was getting married, she asked Mother if she could be the F. Irl Within minutes, N. You would think the Q. Ueen was coming. And she was! Ome Even their dog was...
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Girl Comes Home: February 2011
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Thursday, February 24, 2011. Pueblo, a beautiful place in time. We arrived on my birthday, November 25, 1959, the year I turned eight. Although there were no presents because of the haste of our move I could not know the gift we all were receiving in our father's transfer to Pueblo. Appropriately, the next day was Thanksgiving. In the corner behind the game room was a little coal room, long out of use, with a single small window that had been ...
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Girl Comes Home: A Christmas At Thatcher Elementary School
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Sunday, December 8, 2013. A Christmas At Thatcher Elementary School. When she saw the delightful scene, Mrs. Griffin's eyes widened with pleasure. "You're such an artist," she smiled, "wouldn't you like to help us make some of these to decorate for Christmas? The nose wasn't perfect, the iris not identical. The joy of the first creation was lost in the quest for perfection in repeating the act. Soon the vision of Santa's Helpers, tools and toy...
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Girl Comes Home: God on my Shoulder Part 2: Leaving Colorado Behind (c) Nita Walker Boles
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Sunday, August 7, 2011. God on my Shoulder Part 2: Leaving Colorado Behind (c) Nita Walker Boles. No, no," Rob heard him talking on the phone. "I really can't meet at that time. I have kids that get in from school, and I need to be there." Oh, so it was no accident. "I can meet with you in the evening," he suggested. Where we were going was not an unknown to us. We had been to the plains of New Mexico visiting our complicatedly random fami...
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Girl Comes Home: February 2012
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Wednesday, February 15, 2012. A Place in the Sun 1966 (c) Nita Walker Boles. The rest of our family moved first into a little two bedroom rental home near 34th Street, just down the block from our dad's sister. The dining room became my room with the addition of the curtain partition that had traveled with us from Pueblo. The boys had the small bedroom and my parents the large one. Miss Carnation, an understanding woman who patiently tolerated...
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Girl Comes Home: September 2010
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Friday, September 10, 2010. The Hills Were Alive. Eerily brooding over dried seabeds now watered by two rivers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Queen of the Universe (c) Nita Walker Boles. The Slight Raise of the Eyebrow Could Arrest Misbehavior and Wither the Recipient of THE LOOK. Our Family about 1966 (c) Nita Walker Boles. Mary home from college. Mother was an angel who sewed for all of us. There was an error in this gadget. Jo Stafford and Go...
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Girl Comes Home: Explaining the Big Family that was Rather Small, and the Economics of it All. (c) Nita Walker Boles
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Sunday, August 7, 2011. Explaining the Big Family that was Rather Small, and the Economics of it All. (c) Nita Walker Boles. Their first baby, Alma Jean, was born in 1945 with insufficient lung surfactant. She did not live to come home from the hospital. The war ended, and so did their civilian jobs. For some reason unknown to anyone in the family, they moved to the Ozarks of Missouri. Son was home on leave when she died. That had to have ...
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Girl Comes Home: May 2011
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Two (c) Nita Walker Boles. Curls Courtesy of Plastic Turtles. Sunday, May 22, 2011. Being 13, Part II. My hair always bleached blonder in the summer sun, which seemed to draw the attention of both friend and foe. And on one particular day, a convertible Mustang belonging to my neighbor pulled up full of Red and white letter-jacketed boys. "Hi, Sherry! One of them shouted. One of those houses was some boy named Robbie's house and they thought I was Sherry-who-liked-Robbie! Then to make matters worse, they...
