Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Pregnant (short story) by Leanne Dyck

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This story was inspired by imagining what it was like when my 35-year-old mother told my 42-year-old father she suspected she was pregnant. ...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Learning to Walk (short memoir) by Leanne Dyck

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  When did you learn to walk? I remember that day so clearly, but... is this my memory or my mom's? May 1963 The day I learned to walk. ...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Rural Manitoba Memories by Leanne Dyck (family memoir) part 6

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  In Part Five of Rural Manitoba Memories, you learned what my dad did during and after World War Two, how he met my mother, and how they s...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Rural Manitoba Memories by Leanne Dyck (family memoir) part 5

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In Part Four , you learned that my grandparents moved from Manitoba to BC, after WWII. This Sunday? Where was my dad during World War II? Ho...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Rural Manitoba Memories by Leanne Dyck (family memoir) part 4

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In Part Three  of Rural Manitoba Memories,  you learned that my grandparents opened a tea room and grocery store in Eriksdale after WWI. You...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Rural Manitoba Memoirs by Leanne Dyck (family memoir) part 3

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In Part Two of Rural Manitoba Memories, you learned that the First World War was hard on my grandfather and grandmother. This Sunday...? Af...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Rural Manitoba Memories by Leanne Dyck (family memoir) part 2

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 In Part One of Rural Manitoba Memories,  you learned that my grandpa Willetts planted a seed in Eriksdale, Manitoba's rocky soil, that...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Rural Manitoba Memories by Leanne Dyck (family memoir) part 1

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 Writing purchases for the writer a kind of immortality.  My dad, my aunt and my paternal grandparents all wrote--for fun and to build commu...