Tag: family
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Taking Dad out to IHOP for his birthday
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An ethical legacy from Katherine Dreier
Katherine Dreier, co-founder with Marcel Duchamp of the Société Anonyme, knew my great-grandmother Ruth Seely Preston and Ruth’s mother, Charlotte Seely. I inherited a letter from Katherine Dreier to Ruth Seely in which Dreier writes to the census bureau because Ruth had no birth certificate. Read more→
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Donna & Bob’s 50th anniversary party
I had the please to go to Nashville to celebrate with my family for my sister and brother-in-law’s anniversary. My nieces and nephews, Teri, Melanie, Rob, Bryan, and Beth , did a fantastic job of putting this all together. I wish I had enough time to see my parents make it to such a auspicious…
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Tribute to Grandma: Her singing & My signing
My grandmother’s stage name was Linda Preston when she was younger, and she recorded this song under her stage name, so I can only guess she recorded it in the ’40s. When she was older, her screen name was Audrey Arent when she acted in TV commercials and as an extra in such movies as…
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One day I realized that my parents weren’t…
One day I realized that my parents weren’t just “my parents,” as I had always selfishly seen them— they were “themselves,” living their own lives for 23/25 years before I was born. And, though they became “my parents” after I came into their lives, they were still “themselves” with the selfish need to take care…
Daniel Greene 