Category: Real Personal History

• Lord Knows, I Tried

    I believe that giving the gift of music to one’s own child is very important.  This tendency to pass onto a child is something I got from my mother.  When I was about ten years old, she signed me up for private piano lessons from a Miss Shepard, who lived next to the Presbyterian…

  patrickjegan

  March 31, 2014

  Holding onto the Past, Real and Unreal Adventures, Real Personal History

  Bach, Buxtehude, cartoons on saturday afternoon, church altars, church organs, clapton, girlfriend, guitar lessons, kumbya, matinees, piano lessons, piano lounges, son, stones

• A Brief History of Chains and Chainmaking

  I am holding a very special letter in my hand right now. But, first… Whether we realize it or not, chains play a very important part in our lives.  Indeed, chains have, throughout history, helped to hold the very fabric of our changing civilization together.  For example, I was astounded to learn that the metal…

  patrickjegan

  March 29, 2014

  Fictional Personal History, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, Real and Unreal Adventures, Real Personal History, Short Fiction

  anchors, Blackwells Island, Brooklyn Bridge, chain making, chain-letters, chains, consumption, descendants, forges, immigration, love, marriage, Midlands England