Category: Biography

What happened to the band Traffic?

An excerpt from the acclaimed book Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic’s Chris Wood by Dan Ropek CHAPTER 25 - THE BEGINNING OF THE END There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but completeness; and for…

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III: YOU COULD EAT OFF THE FLOOR: HOW MY GRANDPARENTS CREATED A WORLD, AND HOW THEY TOOK THAT WORLD WITH THEM, WHEREVER THEY WENT

From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. Unless you somehow had inside access to this culture, you could never fully know what it meant to live in a twentieth-century, Italian-American home. Many of the people who lived in this world began with almost nothing,…

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