Tag Archives: Family

A Funeral and a Turf War

Posted on April 19, 2018 by

The newspaper clipping is yellowed with age but carefully folded and preserved in a box of papers left by my Irish grandmother. The box was inside a larger one with an assortment of family papers that sat in the back … Continue reading →

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The Mobsters and the Baby Shoes

Posted on April 7, 2018 by

Back in the early 1970s my sister Angela worked for a temp agency in the East London suburbs of Essex. Her first assignment was with a company named Downy Baby Shoes. She imagined an office where grandmotherly women sewed baby … Continue reading →

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