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  • Prologue
    • My Ancestors
    • Pomes
      • The Crusades – 1934
      • The Lion Hunt
      • The New Year – 1936
      • Of what use is life on earth
      • The moon was in the heavens
      • Spring – 1936
      • Betty – 1936
      • The Vision
      • A Strange Experience
      • The Fire
      • Afraid to Die
      • Devotion
      • Counting Sheep – 1937
      • Epic in the Morning – 1942
      • Letter 1 – 1942
      • Letter 2 – 1942
      • Pome to Nana from Phil – 1942
      • The Steeplechase – 1947
      • We’ve got a new house – 1950
      • Every ticking minute – 1951
      • Thank You Note – 1955
      • The Mare – 1956
      • Poem on a Turnpike
      • Plan Ahead – 1956
      • First came the pot – 1956
      • Limericks
    • Merrily We Roll Along – 1938
  • The Quilt
  • Our Life Together
    • Chapter 1: Thea’s Diary 1943-1960
      • 1.1 Together -through 6/5/44
      • 1.2 Philip at Sea -through 8/14/45
      • 1.3 Together, Again -through 4/30/47
      • 1.4 And Baby Makes Three -through 1/3/50
      • 1.5 And Baby Makes Four -through 11/8/52
      • 1.6 And Baby Makes Five -through 5/1/53
      • 1.7 Long Island -through 1/3/55
      • 1.8 Offers -through March 1957
      • 1.9 Chicago, Here We Come -through 1960
    • Chapter 2: Log of Our Travels by Thumb 1943-1944
      • 2.1 Short Trips
      • 2.2 New York to Colorado
      • 2.3 Colorado to New York
    • Chapter 3: Five Letters 1949-1956
      • 3.1 Letter One: 1949
      • 3.2 Letter Two: 1950
      • 3.3 Letter Three: 1953
      • 3.4 Letter Four: 1955
      • 3.5 Letter Five: 1955-6
    • Chapter 5: Retirement 1991
      • The Great Prince of Plasticity
      • Thea’s Words
      • They Should All Be Hugged and Kissed
    • Chapter 4: William Prager: Personal Recollections – 1985
    • Chapter 6: After 1991
      • Journal 1995
      • Holland & Greece 1994
  • The Seaman
    • Chapter 1: Letter to Antiochians 1944
    • Chapter 2: Letters from Sea 1944
      • 2.0 Log of the Trip
      • 2.1 Across the Atlantic
      • 2.2 In the Mediterranean
      • 2.3 Port Augusta, Sicily
      • 2.4 Bari, Italy
      • 2.5 Brindisi, Italy
      • 2.6 Interlude
      • 2.7 Messing About the Mediterranean
      • 2.8 Second Front
      • 2.9 Homeward Bound
    • Chapter 3: Letters from Sea 1945
      • 3.0 Nettleton News – June
      • 3.1 At Sea – July
      • 3.2 Panama – September
      • 3.3 At Sea Past Eniwetok – October
      • 3.4 In Yokohama Harbor – October
      • 3.5 Telegram – December
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    • Other Letters
      • On the Death of my Father
      • My Mother
  • Nonagenarian Natterings
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      • An Enemy Of The People 2012
      • Halfway up the Tree 2012
      • The Tavern 2012
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      • You Can’t Take it with You 2012
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    • “Willy” by Sue 1963
    • Minneapolis Star Tribune 1986
    • Longfellow Messenger 1987
    • Thea’s Obituary 2008
    • Philip’s Obituary 2014
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Posted on January 15, 2011 by philip