The Stories
      
        
      
      
        Memoir, Friends, Family HistoryCyn Carbonememoir, Gaviota Writers, friends, memories, stories, my mother, Jack Gilbert, moving, change, bravery
       
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      A Day of Awe
      
        
      
      
        Family History, Finding Hope, MemoirCyn Carbonememoir, religion, Judaism, Yom Kippur, my father, my mother, Jeff Greenwald, wisdom, hope, teshuva, T.S. Eliot
       
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday
      
        
      
      
        Memoir, Finding HopeCyn Carbonememoir, walks, trying, Ted Martinez, friends, fog, wisdom, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, my mother
       
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      On My Mother’s Birthday
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      On Her 100th Birthday: Memories of My Mother
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Pass It On: Rambling About Journals and Stumbling on Epiphanies
      
        
      
      
        Memoir, On Writing, Poetry, speech, TeachingCyn CarboneRichard Blanco, Gary Snyder, love, learning, journals, writing, my mother, memories, memoir, memory, William Stafford
       
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      Triumphs
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
      She Is Anyway
      
        
      
      
      
    
  
    
      
        
      
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