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Sitting across the table from my mother today, celebrating her 69th birthday, I remembered this picture of her, at 16, with her mother, Annie, then 41, standing next to a gardenia bush that was still blooming when I was a child. At 16, my mother wanted to be a doctor. She became a devoted mother [...]
My maternal grandmother, Anne Ferrara Jones, died on December 28, 1997. I always think about her more than usual during this time of year. This year, I’ve been thinking about her creative, authentic and joyful philosophy of life. A little background. Her parents, Italian immigrants, died in the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving behind five [...]
