Tag: grandfather

• Coal For Christmas

  My father grew up poor.  Not the kind of poor where he would walk through ten inches of snow barefoot or go from house to house asking for bread.  Just the kind of poor that would keep his father one step ahead of the rent collector. His parents provided the best they could, but, by…

  patrickjegan

  December 11, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, Family, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  Christmas memory, Christmas story, coal in the stocking, coal mining, coal stove, cold, father, father’s childhood, footsteps in snow, grandfather, grandfather’s farm, grandmother, holidays, owego ny, poverty in northeast Pennsylvania, winter

• The Clock On The Wall: A Play In Eight Acts

  Act 1: Sitting at an IBM workbench. I knew the call would come soon.  I was soldering diodes onto a computer chip.  The resin smoked.  The phone rang in my manager’s office.  Go home to your wife, he said, she called and said it’s time.  I pass by the electronic parts window.  A guy says…

  patrickjegan

  May 19, 2013

  Holding onto the Past

  daughters, grandfather, growing up, Travel