Alan, 93 (COVID)
For a family ancestry project I called my cousin Margie’s widower husband Alan. For 66 years Alan was a dentist in Derby Connecticut. He retired last yea...
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How Life Changes (Relatives) (COVID)
We live with family now. We were lukewarm about relatives (not all but many) now because of the pandemic and small apartments big house in the country rooms fo...
Graduation Weekend, or What is Family
All of us, sitting around a big big table. We don’t look alike. Some less likable than others. Blood is not what brings us together. New people joined our...
My Mother had Three Sisters and a Brother and Other Family Members
The baby’s 97 now. Ruthie lives in Delaware. Last one alive. We see her once a year or so. She was the student child. Even went to graduate school in...
Cousin Tillie
my grandfather’s cousin lived in Waterbury Connecticut we saw her on occasion always an in car explanation what an intellectual Cousin Tillie she wore nav...
State Park Picnic
Once my family and the Galens went to Hammanassett State Park for our own and only picnic. We all went in Uncle Jack’s big purple Edsel. When we got to th...