WordPress.com Forums » Tag: organized crime - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/organized-crime WordPress.com Forums » Tag: organized crime - Recent Posts en Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 kownroom on "Kids Make the Best Bookies: A Mafia Memoir (and MORE!)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/kids-make-the-best-bookies-a-mafia-memoir-and-more#post-960714 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:08:02 +0000 kownroom 960714@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hope you will read my latest post--this one about the years I spent living in government-subsidized housing.

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/home-is-where-the-doilies-live-revising-portraits-of-public-housing/

Enjoy!

]]> kownroom on "Kids Make the Best Bookies: A Mafia Memoir (and MORE!)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/kids-make-the-best-bookies-a-mafia-memoir-and-more#post-957566 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:11:43 +0000 kownroom 957566@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This post is off-topic for me, but I bet you'll never guess what the Beatles, Santa, and your local mail carrier have in common. This most recent post to my blog will, at long last, put you in the know.

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/what-the-beatles-santa-and-your-local-mail-carrier-have-in-common/

Check it out!

]]> kownroom on "Kids Make the Best Bookies: A Mafia Memoir (and MORE!)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/kids-make-the-best-bookies-a-mafia-memoir-and-more#post-954062 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:23:53 +0000 kownroom 954062@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm writing a memoir about my mafia childhood, about my father having made his money in organized crime, sometimes even involving my siblings and me in the process.

Check out my posts about this particular past—and other writing along the way that deviates in the direction of art and my partner's work in international disaster response. (I sometimes even write about blogging, gardening, and my battle with bipolar disorder.)

A link to the first chapter of my memoir is below:
http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/an-adolescent-munch-encounters-the-fbi/

But as you scroll down, you’ll find links to my latest posts.

I'm currently doing a creative project that is related to my memoir--transforming a staircase into art:
http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/stepping-up-and-looking-back-more-redemption-in-paper-and-paint/

Hope you’ll stop by and join the fun—maybe even subscribe and leave a comment. I can’t wait to meet you!

]]> kownroom on "BOOKIE IN HEAVEN (A FATHER'S DAY LETTER)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/bookie-in-heaven-a-fathers-day-letter#post-914624 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:13:01 +0000 kownroom 914624@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks to everyone who stopped by today. So great to have you.
Hugs,
Kathy

]]> kownroom on "BOOKIE IN HEAVEN (A FATHER'S DAY LETTER)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/bookie-in-heaven-a-fathers-day-letter#post-913801 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:33:01 +0000 kownroom 913801@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hope you will read my newest post about growing up in an organized crime family. This one is a Father's Day letter to my dad.

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/bookie-in-heaven-a-fathers-day-letter/

Thanks so much.

Hugs,
Kathy

]]> kownroom on "SMALL TOWN GIRL MARRIES MAFIA MAN: PHOTO EDITION" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/small-town-girl-marries-mafia-man-photo-edition#post-906577 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:19:15 +0000 kownroom 906577@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hope you will read my recent post about growing up in an organized crime family--this one about my parents wedding.

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/small-town-girl-marries-mafia-man-photo-edition/

Thanks so much.

Hugs,
Kathy

]]> kownroom on "A Cig and a Swig: Mobster Marine Images Korea" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/a-cig-and-a-swig-mobster-marine-images-korea#post-903347 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:02:25 +0000 kownroom 903347@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hope you will read the latest post in my memoir series--this one about my mafia father's service in Korea during the 1950s.

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/a-cig-and-a-swig-mobster-marine-images-korea/

Thanks for reading!

Hugs,
Kathy

]]> kownroom on "CALL ME THE SHIT WHISPERER" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/call-me-the-shit-whisperer#post-899750 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:18:57 +0000 kownroom 899750@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I hope you will read this draft of my mafia memoir's second chapter.

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/call-me-the-shit-whisperer-memoir-chapter-2/

Hugs,
Kathy

]]> kownroom on "An Adolescent Munch Encounters the FBI" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/an-adolescent-munch-encounters-the-fbi#post-890601 Mon, 21 May 2012 12:09:21 +0000 kownroom 890601@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hope you'll read this post about my memoir's first chapter. My book's working title is "Odds: A Mafia Childhood."

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/an-adolescent-munch-encounters-the-fbi/

Let me know what you think. Thanks--------

Hugs,
Kathy

]]> kownroom on "A Childhood Gambled on God and the Mob" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/a-childhood-gambled-on-god-and-the-mob#post-886046 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:34:19 +0000 kownroom 886046@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've finished a draft of my memoir's first chaper, beginning it with my interview of former, Haitian dictator Baby Doc Duvalier last year in Port-au-Prince. Growing up with a mafia father and religiously fanatical mother, I've long grappled with notions of good and evil, a dissonance triggered again by interviewing "bad-guy" Duvalier that motivated me to seriously pursue a memoir-writing project.

http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/a-childhood-gambled-on-god-and-the-mob-good-news/

I hope you'll take a look.

Hugs,
Kathy

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