Portions, Chapter 1: The Seminary
“Dig that man with the crazy tan; he’s our Dan from the Irish clan.” Frankie Warner made that up. It was a poster of a big-eared, freckle-faced eighth -grader who was running for class president. It hung at the back of the class room in St. Anne’s Parish school, Queen...
Portions, Chapter 2: Seattle University
Seattle University was a new environment after the seminary, but I soon gathered my buddies in the Chieftain cafeteria. My Dad would drive me to school from Queen Anne Hill on his way to work. We left early so he could attend mass at St. Joseph’s before he went to...
Portions, Chapter 3: Family Ties
My Dad died in 1964. He had gone to Group Health Hospital up on 15th street to pass a gallstone. I saw him after it had passed. It was very odd to see my Dad in a hospital bed. He was a big man, strong, a worker. He was not meant to lie in a hospital bed. When I left...
Portions, Chapter 4: The Peace Corps
In June, 1965, I had my first plane trip. It was on a new Boeing 727. The short range jet that took off so fast it had to make a steep climb just to slow down. In my case, this was particularly helpful otherwise the plane might have overshot its landing site,...Portions, Chapter 5: Marge and Me and the Fellows at NYU
Margaret Ann Passasini was a beautiful, first generation Italian American from San Francisco. Her Dad, Vince, was from Sicily and worked as a printer. Her Mom, Ada, was a Florentine whose family was from Lucca. She worked in a retail butcher shop. I visited Ada’s...What’s New
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