It's been nearly a year now since I started Freud's Butcher, and what a roller coaster ride it's been! I'll talk more about that in August, the actual one-year blogiversary. It's just a fortuitous coincidence that these last few weeks have made me re-examine one of the blog's basic premises, while reminding me why I started writing here. My Mother's Story -- and She Stuck to
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Is Personality Static? My Mother, the Uncles & the Eyeballs
One of the things that most interests me about my family history is the "before" and "after" of my mother's life. I wonder what effect being forced to leave Vienna -- especially without her parents -- had on Rita Rosenbaum Jarolim's personality. I've always imagined the impact must have been profound. But I may be wrong. Two pictures and a tale of teasing by the Kornmehl