She saw me swimming in the full tide from the living room window. The sun was going down and she had her pajamas on. When one is three years old, bedtime on a summer’s night often looks like daytime.
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Goodbye Kodachrome Goddammit
My father’s birthday was June 28, 1907. He died in 1989 at 81.
He loved boats of all shapes and sizes and photography. He took this photo in 1953 of my older brother and pigtailed me on Kodachrome slide film … Read the rest
D-Day Memories
It was 1952. I had never flown before but at the age of seven I knew a C-47 when I saw one. It had carried thousands of Allied paratroopers on D-Day 1944 and through this doorway I was now crossing, … Read the rest