Category Archives: memories

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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War Stories and Veterans Day

Posted on November 11, 2018 by

There seems to be no end to the fascinating details of war experience that you’ve never heard of before. The Battlefield Doc and I started the day at a local VFW Post’s annual Veteran’s Day breakfast where Doc had a … Continue reading →

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