Book Description
I am delighted to share in these pages, stories completed between 1982 and 2011; as a whole, they reflect so much of my life and my passions. With great pride, at 90, I bid you welcome to this "bouquet of memories"!
Author : Reva Sylvia Brodsky
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1468533215
I am delighted to share in these pages, stories completed between 1982 and 2011; as a whole, they reflect so much of my life and my passions. With great pride, at 90, I bid you welcome to this "bouquet of memories"!
Author : Gisela Norat
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1685703690
In this memoir, childhood recollections become the springboard for depicting the challenges of a Latina, an immigrant, and a bicultural mother in the United States. The vignettes of life under communist rule in her native Cuba help readers glean a harsh contrast with the civil liberties Americans enjoy. Infused with humor and candid introspection, the writing tackles the pitfalls, the contradictions, and the cultural scrimmages that emerge after marriage to an Anglo man and during the upbringing of their bicultural daughter. When her enthusiasm for Spanish language immersion at home meets with the child's resistance, the author is forced to question the visceral attachment she feels for her birth language. Stumbling through motherhood, she ponders how to live an authentic sense of self while mothering in English. She resolves not to push the daughter to speak Spanish and risk damaging their mother-daughter bond. Instead, the author begins to write and crafts this family legacy as an invitation for her daughter to embrace her Cuban-Spanish lineage. This Latina mother's journey of self-reflection dredges memories of her birthplace, family, exile, cultural adaptation, and social integration. Through the narrative lens of a child, refugee, daughter, wife, mother, professor, and an acculturated Cuban American, the author depicts the culture-clashing complexities of her biculturalism. It is while examining the precariousness of family relationships that the author arrives at a deeper understanding of the nuances of ethnic identity. Through this writing, she achieves a genuine embrace of the extraordinary adoptive country that irrevocably ties her to her beloved American daughter. May you, reader, be inspired to collect and stitch for posterity your tapestry of family stories.
Author : Grace Hildy Croft Christensen
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Mormon women
ISBN :
Author : Frank Carpenter
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 1990-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780937769409
Author : California Federation of Women's Clubs
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Laura Lynn Brown
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426770375
All those years of advice, of her words of wisdom, of loving, of scolding, of laughing... You are you because she is your mom. Celebrate every memory. You've known your mother all your life. Show her you were paying attention with this keepsake book inspiring you to reflect all you've observed back to her, one memory at a time. Thoughtful and playful questions serves as a springboard for recording your memories. Quotations about moms the world over add reflection and wit.
Author : Roxanne Rowley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2019-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781624911439
Author : Mary Goodhind
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2013
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 9780957496903
A Bouquet of Memories is a heart warming account of Mary Goodhind's life from her early years in pre-war London-including her vivid recollections of her wartime experiences of being an evacuee-to her family's move to a new house in Barnehurst to escape the Blitz. She recounts the wartime privations, including rationing, with good humour, but her strong Catholic faith and close family ties to her parents and brother, Rory, were great sources or strength during the war years and beyond. German air-raids, both from conventional bombs, and later on with the V-1 and V-2 rockets, required a spirit of fortitude and endurance, and it seems that for the most part, people shrugged their shoulders and got on with life as well as they could. Her experiences of childhood, school, and her local church, reveal a world which has largely disappeared, a time before television, when there was a much greater sense of community. Similarly, her years at Convent school and her first job in a bank after the War provide fascinating insights into a very different way of life. A Bouquet of Memories also recounts Mary's love of horses and the friendships she established both during and after the War, as well as her numerous holidays and pilgrimages. This book will help the children of today to realise some of the things that their own relatives went through in the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. And while it will be a trip down memory lane for those who have lived through similar experiences, it will be an eye opener for those to whom World War II and its aftermath are mainly part of a fading historical remembrance.
Author : Irene D. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mothers
ISBN : 9780980423815
Author : Cecilia Ruiz
Publisher : Blue Rider Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399171932
"A hauntingly witty, illustrated debut in the vein of Edward Gorey, that explores the power and mystery of human memory, by artist Cecilia Ruiz"--