Alison Garwood Jones

Originally published in March 2011 in Blog

The details

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Originally published in March 2011 in Blog

Thank you, Kathy Thank you, Dan Thank you, Subhash Thank you, Craig

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Trevor Garwood-Jones (1928-2011)

Originally published in March 2011 in Blog

We’ll miss you, Dad.

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Christmas past

Originally published in December 2010 in Blog

Knitting was the last thing my mother knew how to do. I miss her — especially at this time of year.

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Originally published in November 2010 in Blog

Few things amaze me more than the range women’s lives have taken on in the last 100 years. It’s a real A to Z trajectory. When you think that only a century ago women were confined to corsets, shut out of universities and streamlined up the aisle. Now we’re police chiefs and bus drivers and […]

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What will your legacy be?

Originally published in November 2010 in Blog

*9:00 am: This post is dedicated to my friend, Monica Scrivener. She died on Saturday. I found out ten minutes ago on Facebook. In high school, Mon and I used to sit beside each other in art class and make smartass comments. I’m heartbroken. When I’m dead and all physical reminders of the life I […]

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Woof!

Originally published in June 2010 in Blog

The front hallway of the house I grew up in was a grotto of potted plants and hanging baskets placed in and amongst a collection of modern art made from highly polished cast steel. A floating staircase linking the hallway to a second level cut through the middle of this exhibition of vines and metal […]

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The long goodbye …

Originally published in February 2010 in Blog

I got a lot of moving feedback the first time I wrote about my mother, Catherine, here in  The Long Goodbye, published four years ago on this blog. After she died in December 2012, I expanded on the story of our relationship and turned it into a magazine piece for Glow Magazine. You can read that version here. I […]

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