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What I Didn’t Tell You Then About My Wedding…
What I didn’t tell you (or anyone) then about my wedding was that Mom was there. Though I did tell the DJ he needed to keep the music down so people could talk; weddings should be about connections and celebrating, … Continue reading
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Tagged family, family history, life, love, mothers, wedding planner, weddings, writing
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The Hardest Thing
My two German cousins greet me at the undertaker. I’ve just come direct from Frankfurt airport to help prepare for my grandmother’s funeral. “I picked out these clothes, don’t you think Oma will look so well?” The first sister wants … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Geneology, History, Memoir, restaurants
Tagged family, family history, food, german immigrants, Germany, history, life, memories, old new york, opera, writing
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Do You Know Where You Are Going?
New York City, 1946. A family gathers at the Castleholm Restaurant to celebrate a 70th birthday. They are all there, everyone who has immigrated from Bavaria, Germany since the early 1900s. In less than a half century, they have started … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Geneology, History, Memoir, restaurants
Tagged Ancestry, biography, culinary, family, family history, fashion, food, geneology, german immigrants, Germany, history, memoir, new york city, old new york, restaurants, sweden, travel, writing
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Fashion
This article was originally published on The Wondering Woman Wanders and has been reprinted with permission. Fashion. My head is filled with fashion. A-lines and ascots, cloches and collars, buckles and bows, sashes and swirls. House moves are like archaeological … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, artdeco, diy, family, family history, fashion, fashionista, handmade, hats, history, memoir, old new york, sewing
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Crossing Carmine Street
After watching “A Complete Unknown” recently, I had an itch to go back to Greenwich Village, NY–particularly the West Village, where my grandmother and great-grandmother lived. Standing in front of Our Lady of Pompeii yesterday…the church where my parents were … Continue reading
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Tagged family, family history, greenwich-village, history, manhattan, new-york, old new york, travel, writing
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Longing (Sehnsucht)
Sehnsucht… I believe German words are the best conveyors of emotions. In English, Sehnsucht translates as longing or yearning; however, in German, the meaning goes deeper: “sehen” = seeing; “sucht” = search…searching to see something. Sehnsucht: my soul-aching search to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, family, german immigrants, history, Lake Hopatcong, memoir
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Cranberry Bread
Of all the cherished Thanksgiving memories and traditions, the strongest one for me is Mom’s famous cranberry bread. Or, more precisely, according to the actual recipe, “Grandmother’s Famous Cranberry Bread.” Except, that it’s neither. The dog-eared, decades-old family recipe, faithfully … Continue reading
Love in a Cup
Nothing says love in a cup to me like matzo ball soup, my ultimate comfort food. Let others extoll the childhood virtues of coming in from a cold day of snow play to warm up with tomato soup and grilled … Continue reading
The Memory of Loss
My urge to pursue a career in medicine comes from my maternal grandfather, a family doctor. My specific interest in neurological diseases could also be considered hereditary. Over the years, I watched how cancer and neurological diseases—namely Parkinson’s Disease and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's, bavaria germany, breast cancer, family history, Germany, neurological diseases, typhoid fever, World War I, WWI
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