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My family has had a few feuds, but they were long ago and I only heard of them as rumors and legends when I was very young.  One involved a marriage deemed unsuitable for ethnic reasons, resulting in disowning of a daughter and lifelong estrangement of grandkids from grandparents. This prompted my Dad to say,… Read More

My family has not had any feuds that I know of, although there have been estrangements, which seem like two different things. Read More

I seldom saw my parents feuding,  but there was one thorny issue they couldn’t agree on.  When my mother retired after years of teaching she wanted my father to retire as well so that like many of their retired friends they could travel freely. They had traveled a bit over the years – across country,… Read More

Nearly every winter, it seems, my wife and I engage in a friendly feud about how many pets are enough. Read More

Of course, the feud’s origin dated back decades before the pillow incident. Read More

When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the news media became a national unifier. Would the same be true today? Read More

I'd like to say that it was a summer out of a Ray Bradbury tale... Read More

Like any kid, I banged back and forth among various “what do I want to be when I grow up?” fantasies. Read More

I remember her funeral Read More