Family, lost and found

17Feb12

You might have noticed at this point that my family was more of the “unhappy in its own way” kind. Helmed by parents whose own parents had never shown them much affection, which meant they never learned how dispense it themselves, my family was an archipelago of six individuals with few bonds. We were four [...]

Filed under: 2000s, Childhood, Germany, Third Reich, World War II, Youth   |  Closed
Tags: Brighton Beach, family, friendship, isolation, loss, mortality, sadness, sisters, unhappiness

Patterns: mortality

18Jan12

I originally started this blog to find out if there were larger patterns to the things I love. The tags don’t lie: there is a very consistent theme to almost all of my posts, and it’s mortality. Oof. I hadn’t quite expected that. I think of myself as an optimistic, forward-looking person. And all I seem [...]

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Tags: childhood, family, flight, grandparents, legacy, loss, mortality, my mother, patterns