Posts Tagged ‘life lessons’
When is an Immigrant No Longer an Immigrant? A Discussion From Experience
My forthcoming memoir, One Legged-Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies and Coming of Age in 1950s New York, is narrated by my 10-year-old self in the 1950s when I was between the ages of 10 and 12. My dad was an immigrant who escaped abject poverty in Ukraine at the age of 15. He went to work 16…
Read MoreIs Left Brain vs. Right Brain A False Choice? Yes. Here’s Why…
My forthcoming memoir, One Legged-Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies and Coming of Age in 1950s New York, recounts the years I was 10 to 12 years old, narrated by the boy. My father was an immigrant who came to the U.S. from Ukraine at age 15, impoverished and orphaned. He went to work and, in his twenties,…
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