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Category Archives: Family History
I Have Seen A Manatee
I wrote this several years ago, but I’ve decided to share it here on this Thanksgiving. It is the day after Thanksgiving and we have gathered on a wooden pier at the Indian River near Palm Bay Florida in the … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Memoir
Tagged family, family visits, gratitude., grief, loss, manatee, nature, reunions, Thanksgiving
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There Was No Map
He was my brother, and the country of childhood was a tangled one, fraught with discord and shadowed by mystery. Dangers loomed, whether real or imagined, and tranquil moments could not entirely be trusted, for they were as delicate as … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Memoir
Tagged childhood, childhood memories, family, family history, loss, memoir, my brother Eddie
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Filomena
In the course of doing research about our family history, my brother recently managed to locate some relatives who sent him the above photograph of our great-grandmother. Her maiden name was Filomena Rossi. She was born in Italy, and came … Continue reading
Gnomes and Ghosts and Other Things
We went on a road trip with our friends Kit and Beverly and spent two nights in a pair of Airstream trailers. The one Monte and I stayed in was like a tin can, its interior metal walls left mostly bare except for … Continue reading
Confession
This morning, for no particular reason, I suddenly thought about a weird incongruous memory from my childhood, something that happened more than sixty years ago. Isn’t it funny how random images appear in our heads, completely unconnected to the narrative in … Continue reading
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Chicago
It feels so odd to say it now, but I once lived in Chicago. I moved there in 1971 to be with the medical student who was my first husband, and although I left repeatedly, it was something of a home … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Memoir, Travel
Tagged 1970s, brother, Chicago, family, father, World Series
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On Labor Day
My father aspired to be a doctor. I still have in my possession a letter from St. Francis College outlining the requirements for a pre-med course of study, sent in response to his hopeful inquiry. The 1920s were drawing to … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Memoir
Tagged childhood memories, chiropractic, family history, Labor Day, my father, Sharon Olds
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Shoes
Shortly after the end of World War II, one of my grandfather’s brothers sent a letter to him describing impoverished conditions in Southern Italy and asking if my grandfather would send a decent pair of shoes for his daughter Rosaria. My grandfather had … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Travel
Tagged family history, father, grandfather, Italy, Mastrogio, Scafati, shoes, travels
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The Moment by PFC S.W. Carbone
Out of it all—came this moment for the soldier. The moment that in a sense was silly and yet sublime. That made him want to giggle but also to expostulate, this delicately balanced instant between the birth of a hysterical … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, On Writing
Tagged Camp Cooke, family history, my father, Saverio William Carbone, World War II
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