Category Archives: memories

Downsizing Memories: Mari Kondo-ing and Swedish Death Cleaning

Posted on May 16, 2021 by moonbridgebooks

Getting rid of memories—sound a little frightening? After helping or watching from afar as family members downsized parents’ homes to move them into apartments (most recently a quick and drastic downsizing), my sister and I have decided to start downsizing … Continue reading →

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Ghostwriting Family Stories – writing for dad

Posted on July 19, 2020 by moonbridgebooks

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 moonbridgebooks

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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