Still Learning How to Be
Memoir, Family Historycynthiafamily, learning, living, tending to elderly parents, love, duty, elder care, forgiveness, decency, whining, my mother, family history, wisdom, compassion, trying
Faith
Amos and the Dinosaur
Memoir, Family Historycynthiabrooklyn, childhood memories, my brother Eddie, old photographs, Eddie, my brother, Coney Island Avenue, time travel, trick photography
Blackbirds on a Green Lawn
Family History, Memoircynthiaaging, family history, oral history, tending to elderly parents, Esther Carbone, stories, elders, caring for elderly parents, small pleasures
Listening to My Father's Voice
Io Sono Famosa Qui (Sort Of)
Family History, Travel, MemoircynthiaItaly, family, family history, travel, Anna, Zio Francesco, grandfather, Castellammare, Pompeii, Zio Pinuccio, Zia Titina, Boscoreale
Ninety-One
Memoir, Family Historycynthiaaging, eldercare, elderly parents, figuring things out, memories, wisdom, Jane Gross, assisted living, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, my mother, Esther Carbone, birthdays, love, patience, kindness, elders
On My Father's Birthday
Family History, Memoircynthia1960s Long Island, daughters, family, family history, father, memories, Saverio William Carbone, Daddy, Solstice, love, Daddy's thermos
That Birthday...and the Rest to Come
Family History, Memoir, On Writingcynthiathesaurus, writing, my father, love, words, birthdays, gifts, Saverio William Carbone