Leaving home: Syracuse – fifth in the series

August 29, 2011
The young daughters of doctors in my era didn't think of following in their father's footsteps. Instead, they usually wanted to become nurses, and so did I. An avid...
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Hurricane insanity: from the archives

August 28, 2011
Hurricane Frances, Sept. 2004 Glad to hear most everyone's done ok through this weekend's huge hurricane. It brought to mind 2004, when over a period of weeks,...
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Calling home

August 27, 2011
My mother would have been 86 years old today. This is a piece I sold to Skirt! magazine in 2003. It's right on theme with my trip down Memory Lane. To my mother: still...
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Looking back, aging + …skin care? Yes.

August 26, 2011
Here's a little side trip; back to the Memory Lane series tomorrow and if you haven't, see post from earlier today. As I look back on the tales I'm blogging about...
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The surburbs – fourth in the series

August 26, 2011
We soon outgrew the apartment on Lancraft Street and moved to Irondequoit, a suburb just a couple miles from it. It was full of first generation American families making...
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Gone, but not forgotten – third in a series

August 25, 2011
The West side of Rochester, where M is from, is dominated by one thing: Eastman Kodak. At its height, Kodak directly employed 60,000 Rochesterians. In a city of only...
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An interconnected web of family – second in a series

August 24, 2011
Italians in Rochester, NY were identified as either East-side or West-side. We were East-siders, which meant that our families settled somewhere around zip code 14609....
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skin

August 23, 2011
Busy. We're all busy. It's hard to find time to do all the important things on our to-do list, so taking care of ourselves tends to fall to the bottom with a big...
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Bloghopping today

August 23, 2011
I love finding new blogs. Participating in blog hops is an interesting way to do it. So, thought I'd give it a try. Something new So, I'm guest host today for a...
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Going home – first in a series

August 23, 2011
I've lived away for my entire adult life, so I don't know what it's like to live as a grown-up around immediate and extended family. In some ways it's made me the odd...
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