On Friday I got news. I am hired for for an ELA teaching position at a new school in a town close to me. It is a small school, thirty kids, and they have social emotional diagnoses. These are not easy students to work with as trauma and mental health issues can make giving instruction…
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September, 1940: Edmund, Fila, and Gladys
Last Saturday I wrote a post which started us all getting to know some of the “characters” I don’t talk, or know, as much about. September, 1940: Nat and Stretch Two other names that often pop up are Edmund and Fila. These two guys bang around with Jakey and seem to be almost everywhere Jake…
September, 1940: Nat and Stretch
It occurs to me that there are some characters in these pages I know better than others. Zosh, Jake, and Ernie are the mainstays that I’ve read plenty about and heard plenty of stories about in “modern times.” Well, Nat was also an important third to the Zosh and Emily, (that’s Babu!), show. It’s a…
Retro Wednesday: Cocktails
If Babu goes somewhere and has a drink, we read about it in her expert record taking: We had a drink and went to Stretch’s, drank there, went to Eddie’s, drank and ate supper there, came to Jake’s had two or 3 drinks, then to Nat’s and last of all Zosh’s. If only she ever…
John Adamczyk and the Westfield “San”
Babu is a great record keeper and it throws me for such a loop sometimes when she does not input enough data. For example, normally she puts the full date on the back of her pictures as well as everyone’s names. I have been transcribing 1940 and gathering up all the images for that year. …
Searching for Stanley: Part Two
A cemetery can haunt you. I visited two days ago and I cannot get that place out of my mind. I’m processing…well, the meaning of life and death, I guess. I certainly want to do more research and go back and spend some more time. As I alluded to in yesterday’s post, Stanley was not…
August, 1940: Part Two
Here is Part One: August, 1940: The Trip Here is something not to be missed while Babu is on vacation with Jakey in Amsterdam, NY and staying with Ann and Paul: Sunday, August 11th, 1940 We slept late and attended 12 o’clock mass at the Shrine of Auriesville. After dinner we went swimming again but…
Searching for Stanley: Part One
Yesterday I went to the cemetery. As I told you in yesterday’s post, The Rescued Photo did some research on a kid who died when Babu and he were in high school based on a post I wrote from her diary. Some of the information she gave me was that Stanley was buried in St….
Throw Back Thursday: Stanley Midura
I recently had a wonderful favor done for me. It wasn’t something I asked for but it came out of the blue and was a lovely surprise. The lovely blogger The Rescued Photo has been reading through the blog, from the beginning, which first of all warms my heart. Let me be very clear: as a…
Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow: Part Two
Wednesday came around again and I decided I just wasn’t done writing about this. Before you begin this post, refresh your memory about last week’s post, if you wish. Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow Also, please check out last Thursday’s post as well where I explain the picture of Babu and Ernie by…
The Past and Present
I took a dare I made with myself yesterday and I shared a passage with Babu. The dare was to give it one more try, see if it is as bad as I think it is every time. I started with asking her if she remembered writing in a diary every day and she absolutely…
August, 1940: The Trip
This epic vacation Babu and Jakey take deserves first billing when it comes to telling you the stories from August, 1940. It was a romantic vacation for two, and it was not initially meant to be that, exactly. Tuesday, July 30th, 1940 The heat wave is still holing us in it’s grip. Cookie and I…
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