Category Archives: memories

Ghostwriting Family Stories – writing for dad

Posted on July 19, 2020 by

Whew! I finished writing my dad’s stories of childhood and early adult years the best I could with some writings from him and letters he wrote to his family from his army service in the US and in Japan, late … Continue reading →

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Dream of the Water Children – a memoir of half worlds and unpleasant history

Posted on July 21, 2019 by

Fredrick Kakinami Cloyd is Black-Japanese, but actually he is Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and European from his mother’s side and black and Cherokee on his dad’s. He is Amerasian, a term Pearl Buck coined as she advocated for the many abandoned … Continue reading →

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Ornament Memories of Christmas Past

Posted on December 17, 2018 by

I put up a small artificial tree this year. The kids are grown and I’m busy. The thought of putting up a big live tree of dripping needles was too much, but the short old fake tree is a little … Continue reading →

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