Category Archives: family

it’s not just because families are the backbone of civilisation – it’s because I just love ‘em

Another Hello, another Good-bye.

By marlyse | Published: Sunday, December 4, 2011

The past 2 1/2 weeks have passed in a flurry of activities, talk and work. As usual, it was great to have my dad visiting. This time around I decided to make a little photo “story” book as I had made on my birthday, capturing some of those fleeting moments (yes, in-between I plain forgot [...]

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Count-Down

By marlyse | Published: Sunday, September 5, 2010

Not much longer! How fast suddenly the past few months flew by. At first it seemed there is so much time, so much time to finish all these little things: the dragon, The Clan Loop, scanning photos and paintings… and now? I drowned in work – a good thing, mind you – and all of [...]

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The past is working hard to catch up with me.

By marlyse | Published: Monday, July 12, 2010

Not only has Féodora reached out to me after so many years and brought so much joy with this, but today – only barely a month later – her father emailed me too. And this contact was just as much out of the blue. He is thinking about her, he is telling me, wondering how [...]

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