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August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

29. When You Are Not a Favorite

My wife tells me that she never liked her grandfather. He stunk of tobacco – he used to cut up cigars and smoke them in his pipe – ignored her and her siblings, and chased after young women well into his 80s. As a descendant of English-speaking European settlers in a Latin American country, he […]

Tagged disabled child, family, fathers and sons, favoritism, parenting. 1 Comment
June 3, 2020June 3, 2020

14. The War of the Role Models

Recently, my wife asked me if I had any role models as I was growing up in Italy. The concept of “role model” is new to me, so I said no. She pressed on: “Are you sure there wasn’t someone in your life, or even a character from a TV show, whom you admired or […]

Tagged carabinieri, childhood, disabled child, family, Naples Italy, Role models. Leave a comment
May 31, 2020

13. Our Mothers

Until almost the end of her life, my mother-in-law did not like me and did not accept me as part of the family. She thought of me as a good-for-nothing who married her daughter solely to exploit her. As if my wife would put up with fools and moochers! My wife always said that it […]

Tagged Central America, country life, family, marriage, mothers, mothers-in-law, Southern Italy. 1 Comment
May 3, 2020May 3, 2020

5. To Stay or To Go

As a young, newly-married man in southern Italy, my father became a tenant farmer. He rented a large plot of land from a prominent member of a patrician family based near Florence. With only a zappa (a wide-bladed hoe), my dad, joined by his brothers and a couple of day laborers, cleared roots, grasses, weeds, […]

Tagged family, farming, home, homeland, immigration. Leave a comment
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