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Memoirs of a Lifetime
by Carolyn Brent
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Preamble
Family Lore
Tales from the Veranda
More Tales from the Veranda: The New World
Fragments from the Past
My Mother Was a Rebel
Young Carolyn
Samuel H. Robinson Meets Ruth Smilie Adair, or How I Came to Be
Where Did I Live? Birth through Nine Years
Leslie, The Sailor Who Became My Stepfather
Grunion Hunt
Highway One and Esalen: 1934 and 1964
Memories Connected with the Day of Infamy
My Model A Convertible Touring Car
Memories of Punahou
What Led Me to the Manhattan Project
Working on the Manhattan Project
Courtship and Marriage
Courtship, Larry Baldwin Style
From the Manhattan Project to Manhattan: My New Family
A Love Story
Everything that Happens to Parents . . .
A Blended Family
No Use to Bother with Genealogical Research in This Family
You Can Have One If You Make It
It Wasn’t All Roses
My Son Lee
Turning Point
The Renaissance Meets the Hippy Era
Wherein Socrates Provides His Own Thanksgiving Dinner
Looking at All These Wires
Verna and the Coronet
Provenance of the Family Heirloom Mahjong Set
Music & Dance
Peeled Grapes, or Breakfast in Bed with Bill Cope
A Clarinet After Sixty
Red Boots
Born to Dance, Mariposa Chapter
A New Husband and
Le Charivari
for My Eighty-Fourth Birthday
The Wild Ride Surrounding My Eighty-Fifth Birthday
Betty Boykin Takes Me to a Jazz Festival
Professional Life
Standing Ovations
Working at the 1984 Olympics
Banding Butterflies
I Can’t Get That Word Beyond My Teeth
Substituting at an Alternative High School
Working with What I Had
Notes for My Talk on Goddesses and Today’s Woman
A Few of My Travels
My Croning Tattoo
Three Days in a Shi’ite Village—Day One
Circumcision Ceremonies in My Experience
Adventures in the Wild West, 2006: What Goes Pahrump in the Night?
The Adventures Continue
Mar Vista: Life in the Beach City
Nice Calves
Deep Limbic
“there s a dance in the old dame yet”
Live Each Day As Though It Is Your Last
Remembrances of Bemi
Life Models
New Year’s Musings, 2008
From the Bragging Board
What Gives My Life Meaning?
In Honor of Breast Cancer Month
Autograph Book
Christmas Through My Ages
So I’m Not a Cinematographer
Let’s Party! We Had a Ball, Carrie, We Had a Ball
It’s Hard to Be Nostalgic When You Can’t Remember Anything
Carolyn’s Tenth Decade
News from Carolyn
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April 2018
Hello World!