Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Family, Observations, Places, genealogy on Aug 14th, 2008
Around the first week in July I replied to a post on one of my favorite genealogy web sites, Gente di Mare. One of the site’s regular contributors mentioned that he was leaving on vacation for a few weeks in Trapani. Along with adding my well wishes for a pleasant vacation, I mentioned that, coincidentally, [...]
Posted in Family, Observations, genealogy on Aug 11th, 2008
If my weak Italian is correct, sono di sessantatre anni oggi. The Italian association seems fitting for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which relates to my Sicilian ancestors. I have been almost obsessively immersed in genealogy over the last eight months or so, and during this period my focus has been principally [...]
Posted in Family, Observations, genealogy on Aug 9th, 2008
Of all the obstacles that one encounters researching one’s ancestors, perhaps, the one most dreaded is also the most inevitable: the point at which one can proceed no farther, when every clue has been exhausted, when every lead has been pursued, and the paths to the past end as abruptly and mysteriously as they began. [...]
Posted in Family, Observations on Jun 15th, 2008
Father’s Day, like a number of other holidays or special occasions, owes its existence to clever marketing campaigns designed to extract as much profit as possible from an often overly sentimental and gullible public by appealing to emotions, when in the proper context, are not only genuine but ennobling. While free enterprise is well [...]
Posted in Family, Food, Fun, Memorial, Odds & Ends on Jun 5th, 2008
No, this isn’t a morality piece. While I prize my own ego, I am also cognizant of its divers of idiosyncrasies and peccadilloes, its riotous diversions and subversions, and, therefore, echo T S Eliot’s famous query in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, so how shall I presume?
This morning my garden awaits [...]
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Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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