tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54748722220426740892024-03-08T05:54:09.735-08:00Edith BA big fan of Edith Bunker, deceased as she may beedith bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474872222042674089.post-33257902903692097892009-03-08T12:03:00.000-07:002009-06-11T15:09:13.221-07:00PAUL HARVEY 1918 - 2009Paul Harvey died a week or so ago and I was thinking of him when I started this blog as you can tell by the heading of my second post.<br /><br />I didn't much care for his politics but he put out an enjoyable product and THAT I enjoyed since I was a little girl.<br /><br />On the other hand, my husband broke with him during the Nixon Administration when Mr. Harvey repudiated the Vietnam War so this family has always had a complicated relationship with him.<br /><br />But now he is gone.<br /><br />Chapter two.edith bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474872222042674089.post-43351495477581925062008-11-02T13:58:00.000-08:002008-11-04T16:03:28.049-08:00. . . THE REST OF THE STORY<div align="justify">My husband comes from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Anacostia</span></span></span> neighborhood in SE Washington DC. Anybody familiar with this area knows it is the quintessential definition of <b>ghetto</b>. More to the point, it is a <b>slum</b>. His story was tailor-made for Horatio Alger.</div><div align="justify"><br />He got a job in a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">brokerage</span> firm at the age of 17 as a janitor and a kindly old white gentleman <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">assuaged</span> his liberal guilt by taking a shine to an obviously bright young African-American boy from the neighborhood and helped get my future husband into a junior college, taught him the commodity trading business from the ground up, and three years later Archibald - his name clearly a hint to this <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">blog's</span> theme - was able to earn a scholarship to this gentleman's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">alma</span></span></span> mater, Georgetown, and the rest, as they say, is history. A sort of reverse Alan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Iverson</span></span></span> story.<br /><br />A curious thing began to happen. Archibald started putting distance between himself and the old neighborhood and managed to turn himself into a version of that white gentleman but, unfortunately, without his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">generosity.</span> To this day, he still insists that he earned his scholarship to Georgetown and, as a result, has no one to thank for what later success he so clearly earned, being a poor kid from the ghetto and working so hard and on and on into the night. As much as I love him for his other attributes, he has a hole in his soul in this area.<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"></span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">I thought naming this blog the way I did would be a fitting testament to the gentleman who helped my husband. He had a delicious sense of irony. And now you know . . .</span></div>edith bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474872222042674089.post-49874237047311941772008-11-01T15:52:00.000-07:002008-11-02T14:38:20.936-08:00THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH . . .<div align="justify">Since my husband is odd, I have to create this nom de crossword to keep him from knowing what it is that I am doing. He would consider commenting on puzzles as declasse.<br /><br />I am a fan of fiction (which he considers "frivolous") so I created this entire blog out of whole cloth but I consider it the realest thing I have ever done.<br /><br />Go figure.</div>edith bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.com0