Barbara J. Hamby

Make Mom Happy

With Mothers’ Day approaching, I was thinking this morning about what makes mothers happy. I’m pretty sure that all of them, including myself, are most happy when their children are well and happy.

Then I opened up an online essay that elaborated on that very theme. I know that many elderly mothers, such as myself, are trying to winnow… click here to continue

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May, 08th, 2010

Sidewalk Superintendents

Seems like every old man I’ve ever know appoints himself a sidewalk superintendent at every construction, tree-cutting, ditch digging site, etc. This morning a crew began cutting down a tree in back of our building. The old man who lives here had to get in on the action. He wore himself out running back and forth for the hour or… click here to continue

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May, 07th, 2010

I Hate Shopping

For at least the last five years I’ve done most of my clothes shopping by mail order. Consequently I get a deluge of catalogs in the mail. I’ve been overweight most of my adult life, and obese in recent years. Now I’ve lost enough weight that I’m slipping out of plus sizes and back into misses for some articles of… click here to continue

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May, 04th, 2010

What’s in a Name

I’ve known for about twenty years that there’s another poet named Barbara Hamby—much more famous than I, as well as younger. When I still lived in Vancouver a newspaper columnist who was writing an article about me sent me a clipping about the other Ms. Hamby, with a note: “Who is this doppelganger?” After I looked up doppelganger, I had… click here to continue

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May, 02nd, 2010

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