Some of you may be curious about the story; it was a contest in the tradition of Earnest Hemingway. He wrote the first six-word story; some say it was seven, but who knows for sure. It went, "For sale: baby shoes, never used," if I'm not mistaken. My mother's story is somewhat less maudlin; "Alas, her teeth remained in Spain." I love the image of an elderly person traveling to Spain and leaving her teeth in a bar in Madrid after using them as clackers during a night of Flamenco dancing.
Some of you may be curious about the story; it was a contest in the tradition of Earnest Hemingway. He wrote the first six-word story; some say it was...
This is a personal accounting of how my family's heritage was rich in adventure but left a gentler legacy for my sons to learn. This is my first attempt at connecting them with more details of that heritage including an inheritance combining education, raising families on farms and building lives within diverse communities through many walks of life. It is also the beginning of their own stories of evolving to live and function in the third Millenium.
This is a personal accounting of how my family's heritage was rich in adventure but left a gentler legacy for my sons to learn. This is my first attem...
