Articles Archive for May 2007
Second Adulthood »
Whenever I watch “Antiques Roadshow” I am struck by how many people have lots of things that “have been in the family” for generations. That phrase suggests longstanding roots and lovingly transported trunks that are not part of my history; my grandparents and my father were immigrants – the steerage kind – and couldn’t have brought along an exquisite 18th century high-boy, even if they had one.
There is one exception, though: my mother’s Victorian pendant – heart shaped and glittering with curls of tiny diamonds – that was never referred …
