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Great Aunt Emma

Monday, October 22nd, 2007
“Emma’s Knight”Taken October 20, 2007 with Canon PowerShot A550 By the time you met your fellow inmates, most would be dangerous, psychotic, unrecogniz-able versions of themselves. I must apologize to the memory of my Great Aunt Emma, for this horrible photo of her painting. It’s a water-colour, framed behind glass, hanging in an [...]

Jimmy Prentice & the Radio

Monday, October 15th, 2007
Philco Radio, 1941 Bill seemed farther away than ever, and World War II might never end…Jimmy Prentice was somewhat of a local oddball, to hear my parents talk. I don’t know if he actually had a home, or not. My mother talks about how sometimes, just before dinner was set to be “lifted”, [...]