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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Hardman: This Evolution Thing is Troubling

Columnist wrestles with generational changes his family is going through.

  They say worrying causes gray hair, but since I got gray hair, I worry a lot more about things I never paid much attention to. Like this evolution thing. Just the other morning, my TV went blank all of a sudden. I was in total panic mode and ready to throw on my jacket and hit Best Buy. Then I got to thinking, "What would my dad have done?" Of course, he would have gotten out the manual, pulled out a screwdriver and figured out how to repair it. Fortunately, I had just removed the power cord from the wall. Still, as I went back to my granola, I got to thinking about how times have changed for men in my family. While I was deep in thought, the light bulb above the kitchen table went out. Now, this usually involves a call to my outstanding…

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Michael Hardman

11:20 am on Monday, February 13, 2012

Lorna: My sister can do the canning thing. With all the boiling water and cleaning things, the microwave is more my speed. Now, if you can only come up with something that is a little faster. Thank you for reading the column.   more ›

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Old Photos Tell Family's Story

The box contains memories of a lifetime.

Inside the box, there’s a bunch of old people. I’ve kept them there for a few years now. They’ve survived two moves and have stayed in the same old cardboard box. I know the people. In fact, they’re my family. It’s my grandparents, my aunts and uncle, cousins, my sister and me, her kids and my kids. Black and white photos capture holiday get-togethers, births and deaths. It’s the circle of life, family style. You can tell by the dresses and the suits that these are old photos, but the people look like people in my family these days. My 30-ish niece looks like my sister. My son looks like a teenage me. I look like a 50-year-old version of my dad. My sister looks like my grandmother. But, for the most, the people in the photos have died, …

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