i've been writing so much about my mother and her family and very little about my father.  well, until recently, i thought i knew all there was to know about my father's family.  but now there's been yet another major familial wake-up call.  my father's family were 'danish jews.' ...

I loved this leather lampshade when I was a little girl.  At that time, it sat atop a rounded orange glass base and had a plain little ball on top rather than this finial.  If my theory is correct, and my great-grandmother was one of the 'Delaware Moors' then perhaps this shade was made in...