As we enter the season of advent, I wanted to share a Christmas story inspired by a childhood memory. This account is loosely based on actual events. We did live[…]
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Dec
2025
Category: Around The Children
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Nov
2025
(As promised, here is another installment from my proposed book, What Did I Tell You? This is the first six pages of Chapter One. Thank you for reading and please[…]
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Nov
2025
Prologue There really are places in your heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child. ~Anne Lamott The human voice is potent. The sound penetrates the human[…]
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May
2020
By Carolyn and Joseph Waterbury-Tieman Once there was a snail named Slimy. He lived in a hollowed-out log in Slowtown. Slimy had a friend named Sludge. Sludge was a…well, a slug[…]
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May
2020
By Carolyn and Joseph Waterbury-Tieman One day, in my art studio, I was putting the finishing touches on a painting of life on the ocean floor. The last creature to[…]
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May
2020
Sundays, during my childhood, meant making the arduous trek over hill and hollow to my maternal grandparents’ house for dinner. The scenic journey along state Route 11 bordered patchwork-quilt farms,[…]