fair warning: on block island or manhattan or in missouri, we can be a little salty
1.20.2019
olden days
Trying to grapple with the fact that my former (and always) husband (at right, above) turned 75 yesterday. Dreamed about him all night. We're getting old.
Wow. How cute. It looks so.... idyllic. I assume that's Jane in the rear.
Perhaps before we have to consider publishing it posthumously, you and I should buckle down and write "East of Westchester".
If you recall, it's "the story of three generations of men whose lives were destroyed by a grandfather who told them their trout were too small."
Walter's father, who I never met, apparently took Douglas and Johnny fishing, and when the little boys proudly showed him their catch, said something like 'You think you got a fish? You call that a fish? That's no fish. You caught shit."
Now, that is the truth as it was told to me, I think by Douglas. So.. if this is wrong,, please correct me. But it makes good story. Maybe it was only two generations. Whatever!
I suggest we publish the companion piece, "Farther Than Fairfield", at the same time. It will focus on the lives of the Andrews and the Dowling families... and how's this for a marketing tactic? The two books will have narratives that require the reader to skip back and forth between them as the stories unfold to get the complete picture.
Brilliant! When you get back from Kauai let's do it. Before one of us dies or forgets to. --This from CBA, though reposted by me
Wow. How cute. It looks so.... idyllic. I assume that's Jane in the rear.
ReplyDeletePerhaps before we have to consider publishing it posthumously, you and I should buckle down and write "East of Westchester".
If you recall, it's "the story of three generations of men whose lives were destroyed by a grandfather who told them their trout were too small."
Walter's father, who I never met, apparently took Douglas and Johnny fishing, and when the little boys proudly showed him their catch, said something like 'You think you got a fish? You call that a fish? That's no fish. You caught shit."
Now, that is the truth as it was told to me, I think by Douglas. So.. if this is wrong,, please correct me. But it makes good story. Maybe it was only two generations. Whatever!
I suggest we publish the companion piece, "Farther Than Fairfield", at the same time. It will focus on the lives of the Andrews and the Dowling families... and how's this for a marketing tactic? The two books will have narratives that require the reader to skip back and forth between them as the stories unfold to get the complete picture.
Brilliant! When you get back from Kauai let's do it. Before one of us dies or forgets to.
--This from CBA, though reposted by me