Category Archives: family

Kicking Off The New Year

November 15, 2024 – 3:45 am

After New Year’s Day of 2008 my ‘wife’ packed the car with Angie, Champoo, and her fat sister for the return drive to Chai-nat. Her week stay for Xmas had been torture. My every word was ignored with visible disdain. She told my daughter that I was a worthless drunk. Angie and I celebrated her […]

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A FINE DAY FOR SAILING by Peter Nolan Smith

August 30, 2024 – 11:17 am

My grandmother hailed from County Mayo in Ireland. Her last name was Walsh. At the age of fourteen Nana traveled to Boston by ship. Most of the other passengers were cattle. “It was an awful crossing. Storms most of the way. We sailed in the Year of the Crow,” she told her grandchildren in her […]

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Watchic Pond Maine 1964

July 16, 2024 – 12:49 pm

Watchic Pond 1964 My grandfather and his friends had dammed a stream to create a lake. A foto of my brothers and sisters reenacting the Titanic sinking. My grandfather Frank A. Smith graduated from Bowdoin in 1912. A college friend drowned in the Titanic sinking. He was older than his classmates having worked the North […]

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Mistaken Hemingways

June 16, 2024 – 5:21 pm

Back in 1979 I ran into Margaux Hemingway at a disco. I introduced myself and complimented her on her role in MANHATTAN. “That was my sister.” We had a good laugh and a few drinks. Life is a laugh.

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Wind River Mountains 1998

June 16, 2024 – 10:27 am

Wind River Mountains 1998 In the Spring of 1998 my 78 year-old father and I embarked on a road trip through Wyoming and Montana. We picked up a rented car in Bozeman, Montana and stopped the first night in Chico Hot Springs. The next morning the two of us continued down Paradise Valley to Yellowstone […]

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