Halfway to my goal of 100 episodes I pause to consider what things are OK to do only halfway and what kinds of things are no good unless completed.

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Our one-story neighborhood schoolhouse was just a short walk from my house - not uphill both ways in the snow. Even so that walk held many challenges.

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From about age 6 - 11 my mother did not live with me and my brother. She visited, but had her own apartment in NYC. I'll explain why in this episode.

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To listen in on my other podcast which is all about Shakespeare's naughty bits, check out F*ckShakespeare on Apple podcasts and Spotify.

My grandmother's house was a warm gathering place with nooks and secret places. It welcomed us all for every holiday event for decades. Here's a sense of it, if you add your imagination.

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My grandmother settled in to life on another continent, and then... war strikes. It changed everything globally and also personally for the little family.

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In perusing my grandmother's letters, I got to thinking about how we don't write letters any more. It is a practice I kept up for so many years and I'm gonna bring it back!

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In order to marry my grandfather in Italy, my grandmother converted from Mormonism to Catholicism. This prompted me to briefly explore my family's history with religions.

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The decisions that my grandmother made at the tender age of 20, when the world was in economic turmoil, changed the trajectory of my family's history dramatically. Who knows who I would have been with a grandfather named Tommy instead?

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My poor grandmother had to find us a home so she could have her peace and quiet back! That's how we came to settle in Snedens. 

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When my parents were first getting divorced we spent a brief time in Reno, Nevada at a camp for kids whose parents were getting divorced. Don't ask me, I didn't know there were such things. We made the best of it by making a short film. A spaghetti western, of course.

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