#Grandfather

Kingfisher & Wombat

UrsulaV

All the recent Catholic Discourse makes me a little sad that my short story didn’t win the Hugo at Dublin Worldcon, because that was the only time I was ever

Jake Holliday

J_O_Holliday

‘Skeletons in the cupboard’, a thread: This is my Great Great Grandfather Harold George Stewart White aboard the HMS Inflexible on the 4th July 1909. He may have joined the

🍙 Pisukkaaq the Transient ❄

DanDanTransient

My niece asked me how I would react if she revealed she was a man instead of a woman and I told her I'd take her suit shopping. Don't get

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UrbaniteAlaska

You know what really pisses me off? I mean really pisses me off. My Grandfather was an orphan during the Depression. He fought and he suffered and he did his

K38

K38rescue

My grandfather Byron Quivey pictured here was with the The 340th Bombardment Group. All 88 B'25's destroyed in some manner March 1944~ 6 salvaged with replacement parts and one made

Michael Wright

bymichaelwright

We're celebrating Black History Month in Still Life this month, and today's entry focuses on Martin Puryear's sculpture "C.F.A.O." (2006)http://tinyletter.com/still-life/ Puryear's sculpture references Ngil m

joannakoshy

joannakoshy1

Thread of ridiculous things my Syrian Christian loved ones have done:I love my family but we need to claim our role as a Brahmin-adjacent political group1/n My grandfather has told

Adam Lane Smith

TheBrometheus

My wealthy atheist grandfather kept a safe full of diamonds on his main property and owned a ton of land across the USHe disowned and disinherited my mother for marrying

Nat 🌍

Nat_Staletovic

America is not the same America when my family immigrated here from a socialist country. It truly saddens me what the US has come to. As Americans we are blessed

Will Bailey

RepWillBailey

Biden’s Watch Story Breaks My Heart. Here’s why:My grandfather never had a lot of money. He was the son of an immigrant and owned a small dry cleaning plant and

Gillian Dempsey

catedempsey

Has anyone else with hEDS (hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) had adverse reactions from vaccines with aluminium / aluminum adjuvants? I'm not asking for people who are anti-vaxxers to tell me how

Alex Perez

Perez_Writes

As a first-generation American kid who’d always wanted to escape his embarrassing blue-collar upbringing, the greatest red pill was when I finally penetrated the elite world and realized that my

NBA Jam (the book)

nbajambook

Wanted to get personal for a moment and pay tribute to my single greatest inspiration: Professor Ahmed Ali.Born 110 years ago on this date in Delhi, British India, Ali went

Sanchita Balachandran

Sanchita_writes

1/I wrote this piece for @Hyperallergic as a way to think about my own vexed relationship with museums, places I know to offer joy, solace and reconnection but that are

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iyobosakelly_

Here are some things you may nt know: Aliko Dangote’s great grandfather Alhassan Dantata was a trader frm Northern Nigeria who traded mainly in kola nuts and groundnuts. His distribution pool extended far

Molly Jong-Fast🏡

MollyJongFast

My grandfather (Howard Fast) wrote this amazing paragraph about his FBI file, I keep reading it over and over so I've decided to tweet it. The eleven hundred pages detailed

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