Post Tagged with: "Family"

Fury Young on Set

Fury’s Nugget: “Loneliness Can Make You Stronger.”

by PenTales Pundit Royal Young Often, you don’t realize the importance of people until they leave you. My younger brother and I really got close after I left for college. Of course, as kids growing up on the Lower East Side, we shared pillow fights and comic books, Hanukah candy […]

Family by Maida Sheikh

He preferred the boy. She was a smear on his coat of Honor. She did it herself, he reasoned. If she hadn’t gone looking for men, she’d have been just fine. I gave her everything i could, and this is how she repays me! She had been told how she […]

Sunday School Lines

Sunday School Lines

By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland With the PenTales Life Lessons Project we want to give 60+ years old and seniors a voice on the Web 2.0 (check out the call for stories here).  I interviewed my grandad a couple of months ago, and within an hour I learned […]

Web 2.0 Savvy Seniors

By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland Seniors trying to figure out how PhotoBooth works Check out these hilarious videos of this funny old couple discovering PhotoBooth! It makes me both laugh AND marvel at how much change their generation has lived through. I remember explaining to my grandad how […]

“Beats Any Toy” by Lauren Frey-Daisley, NYC

topic: MONEY medium:TEXT, VIDEO This story was shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet” After my parents’ divorce, our family’s house became Dad’s house. Weekends there became not normal weekends, but very exciting trips. Mom had taken our beds with her when we moved out, so at Dad’s […]

“A Letter to My Sons” by Paul McAdams, Canada

“A Letter to My Sons” by Paul McAdams, Canada

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT Flying somewhere over Greenland My Dearest Sons, I left this morning with a heavy heart. Usually your mother drives me to the airport with you in tow, you jump out once we’ve parked and hug me with an intensity lasting my whole trip. This morning it […]

“My Mother’s Eyes” by Katherine J. Chen, NYC

“My Mother’s Eyes” by Katherine J. Chen, NYC

topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT My mother once saw me for who I was. It was as if she had prepared herself – had made the resolution to see her child not as a part of her body but as a stranger, unconnected, with no memory of having breastfed me or […]

“My Papa’s Eyes” by David Fraser, Unknown

“My Papa’s Eyes” by David Fraser, Unknown

topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT I see my papa’s eyes weighted with two round stones, smoothed by river water. My mother’s tears drip upon my neck. I reach across a crude, rough-hewn wooden box, a kind of boat to me, lined with my mother’s shawl. With me, I see my mother, […]

ON THE ROAD: Travel to Budapest by Mriam Feder, Oregon

Travel to Budapest by Mriam Feder, Oregon We were seasoned travelers by the time we reached Budapest by overnight train. My daughter was much fresher than I was. She slept for most of the ride from Salzburg, while stern-looking guards from B-list World War II movies burst into our compartment […]