"We do the best we can."
Gioconda Severini, my grandmother, in her later years, alternating with her other favorite saying, " You live long enough, you see everything." Her birthday--and that of my grandfather, Ignazio Severini--were celebrated at the end of September, if at all. She was born in 1896, and he in 1893.
On Having Turned 80
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It seemed odd, even to me, that after posts (or, let's face it, essays) on
major and not so major birthdays for the past 20 years, I let turning 80 go ...
2 weeks ago
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