Tag Archives: Hispanic immigrants

a man of letters – prejudice by any other name is still prejudice

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Sheila Morris

Two years ago in the summer of 2018 I published posts containing letters written by my father to family members from his teenage years in the early 1940s to his death in 1976.  I called the series “a man of … Continue reading →

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I’m Thinking of a 4-Letter Word that Rhymes with Fall…

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Sheila Morris

Originally posted on I'll Call It Like I See It:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a…

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a man of letters (3) – prejudice by any other name is still prejudice

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Sheila Morris

While the war took center stage in everyone’s mind in 1942 and my dad noticed that his hunting and fishing buddies in Richards, Texas had a younger sister, apparently hormones were also raging in my dad’s brother Ray who would have been … Continue reading →

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