My father was an inconsistent gardener. He claimed that his parents, immigrants who had been wealthy in the old country, disapproved of anything hinting at manual labor for their sons. Gardening was an act of rebellion for him, but not something he knew a lot about, or stuck to. Some yea...
The children of immigrants are the ones who do get increasingly more assimilated. By the third generation, most kids from immigrant families blend into the proverbial melting pot so much that theyspeak only English. I’m certainly noticing this generational language wear: My American-born kids spe...
Based on all of the first generation immigrants in my family who passed away in their 90s after a long and comfortable retirement, my estimation is that those people were pretty wise. Some of this, of course, is related to the unions to which they belonged, forcing them to save but putti...
My parents were quite poor when I was very little, so we always had a garden. But I lived in rural Australia, and this was the early seventies. There were no supermarkets, food was generally much more expensive, and even a housing block in the suburbs had enough room for a substantial ...
My father often works very hard. And he has 1to see a film. Here I’ll tell you 2about One afternoon, when he finished his work and 3go home, he found a film ticket under the4on his desk. He thought he...
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