Posts Tagged ‘family’

My family in central Turkey, 1948

A nothing moment on their travels that seems to capture a life now lost

The funniest person I know

My sister Kali is a riot and you’ll soon see why on the Disney show “Liv and Maddie”

Gavin Russom plays Le Poisson Rouge

He designs and builds his own synthesizers and you can see what he’s up to this Wednesday


Letter from Japan the day WWII ended

My grandfather’s firsthand account of the destruction of Japanese cities

My grandfather’s sketch of the home he’d found in Cairo in 1956

Part of an effort to entice his family to join him in Egypt in the aftermath of the 1956 war

At LCD Soundsystem’s last-ever show

The band put on a marathon final show at Madison Square Garden and went out in style


Yen notes and coins: Japan, c1940s

Japanese yen brought home to America after WWII