The Past, Still Present
Fran DavisGenealogy as psychological archaeology: stories of silence, survival, and what families carry forward.
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The People in My Grandmother's House
The Anne Series. This is part of an ongoing exploration of the life of Anne Gertrude Epstein (Mooney), my maternal grandmother, the keeper who held a crowded table together, and the people she loved but could not keep. If you’re just findin...
The Space He Left on the Page
The Anne Series. This is part of an ongoing exploration of the life of Anne Gertrude Epstein (Mooney), my maternal grandmother, the keeper who held a crowded table together, and the people she loved but could not keep. If you’re just findin...
Before You Forget: How to Collect Your Own Memories
Last week I sat down to write about my grandmother Anne, and I didn’t start with a story. I started with a list.
Not “Anne was born in—.” Not a clean opening paragraph. Just fragments. The spoon tapping the glass of coffee milk she made me...
The Fingerprint of Safety: An Introduction to Anne Epstein Mooney
The first thing I remember is the spoon tapping the glass: coffee milk, half coffee and half milk and far too much sugar, made for me by my grandmother Anne in a Miami Beach kitchen barely big enough for one person.
Her life had real losse...
How I’m Building a Visual Story World (Starting With My Dad)
Sometimes a single object can do what a whole timeline can’t. It makes a person feel present — the way a wedding photograph did in Sixteen: The Girl in the Frame, and the way a Bible did in What She Gave Him.
I’m building a visual “story t...
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Real family stories pulled from real records. I write about loss, discovery, and the compassion that comes from looking back at the people who made you.
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