Brenda Shirk is a post-war baby born in 1948. She turns 70 this year and has seven decades of stories to share.
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- The Rock That Swallows Mothers(Illustration courtesy of esplanade.com) When I was a […]
- Constantly by Cliff Richard or How I Learned English
- Bucktooth(image courtesy of Vintage Everyday) When my mother […]
- Chapter 4. Challenges and CelebrationsThose times were BP, Before Penicillin, and there were a number of serious childhood illnesses, which were expected for most children, like rites of passage. I only know from being told that my first severe illness, which had to have included some pain, was a kidney infection when I was just a baby. I don’t know how this was treated, but the after-effects would follow me into my teens due to my mother’s lifelong concern for my plumbing […]
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