Tag Archives: family

The Oral Tradition

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Fred Bubbers

Last week, I traveled up to Massachusetts to attend the memorial service for my uncle, John Juergen  Bubbers, who died in May after a long illness.  I was reunited with my cousins most of whom I’ve not seen in many … Continue reading →

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Racing to the Bottom

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Fred Bubbers

Christmas Day, 1965. The night before, when my family opened our presents, I had been given by Santa Claus, a small drum set, a GI Joe, and a little plastic guitar with the faces of John, Paul, George, and Ringo … Continue reading →

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Natural Selection

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Fred Bubbers

As part of my continuing experiment with electronic publishing, I have added my short story “Natural Selection” to my eBook store.  When this story was originally published last October in Cantaraville, wrote extensively about how it came to be written … Continue reading →

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Gifts Epilogue: Christmas 1979

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

An epilogue to the previous post, “Gifts.” On Christmas Day of 1979, my parents, my sisters, and I drove out to Stony Brook to visit with Oma and Opa.  Opa was in the terminal stage of the cancer that would … Continue reading →

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Gifts

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

Part 1: This essay was originally published three years ago in Seeker Magazine.  When I began writing it, my only intent was to document a family story that was going to be forever lost due to the passage of time.  … Continue reading →

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