Tag: Grandfather

I remember my grandfather telling fascinating stories about Ma Fada, which my mother later revealed was a Spanish comic book called "Dolls Around the World" that my grandfather had brought back from Europe. Unfortunately, during the Cultural Revolution, this book was banned and my grandfat...

I remember my grandfather telling fascinating stories about Ma Fada, which my mother later revealed was a Spanish comic book called "Dolls Around the World" that my grandfather had brought back from Europe. Unfortunately, during the Cultural Revolution, this book was banned and my grandfat...

I was 11 when I went on my first date. It was the summer of, I believe, 2003. Me and my now estranged cousin spent our months off from school at our grandparents’ summer house in Kuşadası, a Turkish beach resort town on the Aegean coast. Every night, the cool kids went down to the shore w...

I never met my paternal grandfather. He died twenty years before I was born. His name was Paul Marius Carrier. He was born to a Frenchman (Louis Bernard Carrier) and Valentine Leandro, a lady of Portuguese Eurasian and Thai ancestry. The Portuguese Eurasians were the descendants of the Portuguese (w...

I must have been 8 and my father had taken me on a trip to Amsterdam. I have no recollection on the why’s of it. As you may know, my father had abandoned me at the age of 3, so visiting him was already a rare thing, let alone taking a trip with him outside of my hometown Groningen (n...