Blogs tagged with: Family Stories

I remembered later that so many years later, I did do something for Tante Lena. 

Tante Lena had no one to remember her when she died. She had no one to continue her line, as the expression goes. There was no one to name a child after her according to tradition. Who would do that?

My daughter just told me that every family has their wild and disastrous stories. Is this true?

How come I didn't know that! How come I thought that my family was the only one!

Then, right away, I remembered another story from someone else's family that sounds so made up, it could not possibly be true, but it was literally true. It's a

Those of you who have been following this blog for some time may remember a series of my family stories. I just reread a blog entry that featured insightful comments Pam and Charles had made in response to what I had written about my beloved brother Bennie. Rereading Pam's and Charles' deep insights are helping my perspective grow enormously.

Charles wrote an evocative comment in response to the post called Lovely. I will repeat what Charles wrote. I suspect that Charles' comment could apply to many lives, the unhappy families who do not seem to appreciate each other and all the close loving families that do appreciate each other. What makes a family one way or another? What made Santhan's family so loving and generous and...