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Synopsis
The author shares the advice she gave her children when they went off to college, including "Know who you are," "Know where you are going," and "Know before whom you will one day stand in judgement".
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From the Author
Here's a brief summary of why I wrote the book.
"Everything I know" began as a letter to my daughter as she was getting ready to leave for college. In realizing how very sad I felt at her leaving, I also realized how many things I had always meant to teach/tell her but hadn't. Our children, as it turns out, are with us for a far shorter period of time than I understood while I was raising them. And I also think of our contemporary society as so transient, our families so un-rooted, that I thought it might be my last opportunity to link my children to their family roots---to create the chains that would bind them always to our family values and traditions. My book, then, is a collection of family stories, life-truths and silly details that I wanted to pass on to my daughter and, later, to my son as he too left home. In writing the book, I began with the question "what do I know is true--- absolutely true---so true that it is one of the things I want to convey as a life-truth to my children?" One might think, as I did, that this is a fairly simple question to answer, but in fact, at least for me, it didn't turn out to be. So many of the things I believe are true are in fact true for a specific situation but not universally true. I was able, finally, to come to the things I know unequivocably to be true in life, beginning with "Trust your instincts and never let anyone convince you that your instinct is not your instinct" all the way through "Never let your work, no matter how engrossing or lucrative, interfere with your family. Never Never NEVER!" In addition, I realized that I had never told my children all the family stories that I had learned as a child---stories that could let them know where they come from. Stories about Cousin Sonny who once smashed in a television set that his father was watching when he couldn't get his attention any other way. Stories about Uncle Ralph who used to meet with his lawyers and accountants at the Dunkin Donuts in Providence, RI at 4 a.m. So that was the other important part of the book for me; how to let the personalities of family members come alive so that my children would understand who their family is and where we came from.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0756774411
- ISBN 13 9780756774417
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages158
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