Thank You, Danny Kaye

by | May 9, 2018 | daily prompt

When my dad was very sick and he couldn’t move, we knew how to make him laugh heartily and forget about his situation for a while. It was pretty easy because he was a good-humoured man. But we had a specially very good time when we used to watch with him a Danny...

Singing together

by | Apr 15, 2018 | daily prompt

My father loved music and every time we were all together, he encouraged us to sing. My sister Elica used to play the piano or the guitar and we could spend hours after dinner merrily singing all kind of songs. Dad had a nice tenor voice and a some repertoire of love...

Purposely messy

by | Mar 3, 2018 | daily prompt

My dad was a journalist, and a writer, and a University teacher. He had at home a little den full of shelves with all kind of books and with a messy desk. Well, apparently was messy, because there were two typewriters and stacks of papers here and there, a radio with...

My trip to Trier

by | Jan 28, 2018 | daily prompt, Journalism, Memories

Many years ago, in the early nineties, my boss sent me to Eastern Germany for a week to visit an engine factory which was producing pieces for a car manufacturer of my community. The reunification of Germany was very recent. And the big western firms had just landed...
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