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Dear Nana Family Travel

Greenpoint – exploring my Polish roots, May 4, 2023

A letter to my grandmother about the day I learned some of her secrets.

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Family Travel

City Island – May 2, 2023

A coming home to an island that helped shaped my world view sixty years ago.

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Family Life and Death

Dad’s Last Ride

My father rode down King Street for the last time just before noon on Saturday, May 27.

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Family Life and Death

My Father’s Eulogy

John Peter Illo never learned to swim in water, yet he swam at odds with the cultural flow, cross grain to the tide.

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Family Happiness Horses Nicaragua Observations Our Life

Ghosts On Our Bedroom Wall

The pictures on our bedroom wall each contain at least one memory—a captured spirit or ghost, if you will.