Rilla’s Rambles

Rilla’s Rambles

I’M DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS

Just not here!

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Dec 19, 2024
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Thank you for your comments on my previous post—BROWN GIRL IN THE… DELUGE? I loved having you share your stories dealing with the issue of belonging and identity. That space in-between seems less lonely now, knowing how many inhabit it, how many relate.

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And now to this week’s post.

It seems, about two-thirds of the world’s population, including a good proportion of Americans, have never seen snow. That certainly was true for me as a child in India—a fact much bemoaned by my American mother, though I’m not sure why. Despite having grown up in Michigan, Canada, and Sweden, she detested the cold.

My mom pushing a sled somewhere in Sweden ©EBB

One of my mother’s childhood stories had to do with the two-mile walk to and from school, a trip she took with her sist…

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