Tag: Beau Bercaw

Remembering Vets and Beau

Dear Memorial Day Readers, My father was born May 30, 1938 in Manila, where his father was sent by the IRS to try to get Gen. Douglas MacArthur to pay his taxes. Oddly or ironically or serendipitously (will someone tell me the right word?), Beau was sent to the Philippines to be a surgeon during…

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Everyone’s a Winner in the Blogosphere

Dear Golden Readers, I am pleased to report that a Singapore-based follower of Brain in a Jar has awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award. She has a blog, too, called Frangipani Singaporenicum about her trials and triumphs while taking care of her mother who has early dementia. I like her blog because it connects me…

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