Sentences with phrase «family lore»

Encourage everyone to post inside jokes, recipes, memories and bits of family lore.

That's when, as family lore goes, the recipe got lost.

This tour is now the stuff of family lore, which is why I found it amusing to be invited back just this month.

While not a biography, the book will flesh out anyone's familiarity with the de Menils» story, no matter how steeped in family lore the reader might be.

John Bolch at Family Lore writes: It's not ALL nonsense around here... — surveying the many and varied services he provides free for practitioners and students.

John has been practicing family law since becoming a solicitor on April 1, 1985 — that's 23 years ago from today — and writes the law blog Family Lore.

John Bolch at Family Lore comments as well, and separately notes «that Conservative think tank the Centre for Social Justice will recommend that there be a compulsory three - month «cooling off» period before divorce proceedings can be commenced, one of a number of proposals contained in a report Every Family Matters, to be published [July 13].»

The one item that is the simplest on the table — besides the butter that's not so simple after being molded into a turkey — the one item that has no business outshining the turkey or mixing in with the mashed potatoes, is also the one that places a cavernous divide as unwavering within family lore as the line that divided the back seat between siblings on family vacations.

Of course, Jesus Christ is not your grandfather, and the stories we tell about him are grounded in Scripture, not family lore.

Rakeffet «Rothkoff's selections include many deep Jewish and human insights, personal glimpses, and Soloveitchik family lore.

For reasons lost in the mists of Everest family lore, the great man insisted on pronouncing his name in two syllables — EVE - rest — which is a word better suited to some sort of over-the-counter product for women than to the single most daunting object to grace Earth's surface.

This is a black - and - white film about two brothers, a self - written picture distilling much family lore but also trucking in masculine archetypes, ones that the film twists and turns and mutates into something that seems to mash up Tennessee Williams and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

In «The Food Tells the Story,» Bri DiRosa reflects on how family recipes can conjure vivid memories of now - departed relatives, cementing family lore.

Family lore recalls how when my father was young he could remain completely engrossed in a book even while fishing.

Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.

As she explores the old North German farmhouse after her grandmother's death, she sifts through family lore and revisits the pivotal events of her youth.

Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Dew Breaker) describes her family history in Brother, I'm Dying with a dispassion that only adds to the drama of childhood memories and snippets of family lore learned out of sequence and in fragments.

«Family lore says my older brother saved «all his pennies» to be able to adopt Broker, but he turned out to really be my dog.

The story of JFK rocking me as a baby became family lore and a large part of my identity.

From visits to artists» studios — in family lore, Dr. Mandelbaum convinced Mark Rothko to quit smoking — to travels throughout Europe, the United States, Africa, and the Middle East, the Mandelbaums assumed a life occupied by art and exploration.

Often she pairs stories from antiquity with family lore to create works that manifest themselves as contemporary baroque assemblages or works on paper.

Another legal blogger, John Bolch of the blog Family Lore, provided input on the use of Blogger.

over at Family Lore... John Bolch asks: Can divorce lawyers stop wives from cutting up their husbands with chainsaws?

Family Lore comments.

I have heard tales of family lore, making spaetzle for holidays and other special occasions.

Grandma's secret zucchini bread recipe can be your chance to pass on a little bit of family lore.

* Family lore has it that when I was a baby, my mom was baking chocolate chip peanut cookies in one end of the house while I was napping in a closed room in the other.

It's become part of our family lore, and it makes our story even juicier.

My husband, according to family lore, got stubborn one day at the age of 2 and refused to wear diapers anymore.

Or that they remember and share family stories so that their child will pass the family lore on one day.

This is a tangle of witches and magic, vampires, alchemy, history, family lore, suspense, and a little romance into a very entertaining page - turner.

Aording to family lore, «car» was the first non-essential word in my vocabulary, and I was able to identify every automobile on the road by the time I was 5.

People are trying to pass on family lore to you, trying to pass on cultural lore.

From diary entries, social worker's reports, half - recalled memories, story problems, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother's letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world while she searches for the way out of it.

A Band of Angels by award - winning author Deborah Hopkinson skillfully weaves the story of the Jubilee Singers of Nashville's Fisk College within the context of family lore.

There are touches of magical realism in the family lore too - the red currants out back are reputed to have turned white when an aunt died of pneumonia, and another aunt gives off electrical shocks to whomever she touches.

They do this in large and small ways, such as greeting them with genuine aloha, sharing music and family lore, and in colorful programs during Aloha Festivals, Lei Day and Kamehameha Day, in honor of Hawaii's greatest king.

Drawing from research on motifs from traditional Albanian kilims (flat woven rugs), her work discusses acculturation and feminism, often pairing stories from antiquity with family lore.

According to family lore, Kjartansson was conceived that night.

Stories are a starting point for all of Taus Makhacheva's works and they are told in local vernacular: ordinary people, everyday objects, works of applied decorative arts, landscape, traditions, family lore and institutional archives.

According to family lore, young Nevelson was so forlorn about her father's departure that she became mute for six months.

According to family lore, «someone» around here had a taste for slugs when she was a toddler.

reports on two new blogs: Family Lore, from a family law solicitor practicing in England and Wales, and The Landlord Law Blog, offering thoughts on residential landlord and tenant law.

Family Lore was up and running within a couple of days.