Alexei Kondratiev died last night ( Read more... )

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I'd assumed that I was the first of my family to see Iceland. But apparently my grandparents were married while my grandfather, the naval captain, was on shore leave. He thought he had a month during which his time was his own, but the day after the wedding he was told that he had a day to get to port before being shipped back to the American ( Read more... )

My great-aunt died quite recently. She'd had a few bad falls. We're all a bit unclear on details, but word is coming through my grandfather, her brother, the naval captain. His missives, even his phone conversations, are short as telegrams to this day. I doubt one could get information from the man with hooks ( Read more... )

I threw out all of my old notebooks a small while ago. Parker mistook the plastic bag into which I was throwing them and we took them home, by accident, and I threw them out all over again. The first things I ever tried to write were in there, as was the only evidence that I could be an artist, if I tried. Now it rots but does not disappear, ( Read more... )

Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan are dead.

Goodnight. Thank you.