My father was a distinctly midcentury man.
He was a man of tract homes and manual transmissions, cigarettes and pipe tobacco, straw hats and huaraches, sand dunes and surf fishing, Frank Sinatra and Mel Tormé, pancakes with his kids on Saturday morning and roasted meats with his dad at the table on Sunday nights. He was a dry martini/red wine with ice kind of guy: uncomplicated, elemental, rustic, reserved.
And yet, in his final decade, I found him nearly indecipherable. (more…)
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Kurt R.A. Giambastiani 