Decades-Under the Same Shared Sun

By Marlana DeMarco Hogan

Today I Found My Way, Or So I Say

Yesterday affects me in every way,

But effective this day, I will only look forward

Each and every next day,

Or so I say.

Decades—Under the Same Shared Sun transports the reader through time, and with each heartfelt verse, the author provides a glimpse of her life experiences as an Italian American. It all begins with the arrival of a young immigrant family to the United States of America and the soon-after birth of the family’s first American-born child. What follows are more than six decades of the author’s life growing-up-girl in America through the sixties, seventies, and eighties while finding her very own special way in a new world and a new age too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9798890618047

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Hand Me That Bootstrap

Made in Italy

Their Big Mistake

Birthright Citizenship (The Stowaway)

Ah, Raspberries! (Why Are You Here?)

Child's Play

Brothers, Sister, Cousins, Friends

Cross the Creek to the Fort

Slaughterhouse at Age Five

Once Upon Another Time (Here's to You, My Mrs. Robinson)

La Luce del Sole

Growing Up in the Brainiac Zone

The Bedroom Next Door

Teacher Teacher

Crazy World

Yvonne, Patty, and Me

Riding the Wave without a Clue

Title IX (Growing Up Girl in America)

Survival of the Fittest

The Rat Race

Screens

Screams and Dreams

God Got Me Good

Kill Them with Kindness (Three Cognates—Rispetto/Pazienza/Attenzione)

Between Two Bells

Obviously Elementary

Lady Liberty

The Great American Blender

Shake Up That Gene Pool

La Famiglia

Policastro

Rutgers, Do You Remember Me?

You Have No Idea

Amazing Place

Who Are You

The Natural-List

Deer Ticks

Stingray Day Down at the Shore—A School's Class Trip

Inchworm Inchworm

Springalingaling (Wakey, Wakey)

The Reading Tree (Ancient Tulip Tree to You and Me)

When the Army Worms Arrived

Tic-Tac-Snow

The Trees That Shouldn't Be

The Local Family Farm

Ember Pember

Green Legs

Hello, Baby Chick

Free at Fifty-three

So Long

On a First Name Basis

Father and Daughter Enterprises (Where You Are?)

Mother and Son Enterprises

Broken

Completed Tasks

Almost Everything

I Forgot It Could Rain

How Was I to Know?

And Then There Were Ten

The Last Name Game

I Remember You

Coffee Time Cometh

Slow-Motion Minutes to a Fast-Forward Day

Living in the Danger Zone

Cocooned (So You Mean You Are Human)

Eastpointe

Address, the Issue

Shared Moments

Owlie

Modern Weekly Harvest

The Neighborhood Cat (A Cat's Tale)

The Kitty Cat Collection Agency I

Kitty Cat Collection Agency II

Baby Talk, Big Boy Walk

The Wannabe, Me

Perky Percocet

One a Day

My Race with Time—Sandy Hook Beach, the Starting Line

Forever Ago

The Coronavirus Crash (Alone Together)

Census 2020 (Old Time Head Count Method)

The Air We Share (A Coronavirus Connection)

With Appreciation

Ode to the Purple Porta Potty

The Bewitching Hour

Spindles and Windows

The Home Stretch

My Imaginary Us

A Way of Life

I Want to Write

Husband and Son

Devotion

Between You and Me

A Pause with Awe (Original Title: Applause with Awe)

Duckweed

The Squirrel's Nest—Me and the Trees, We're Up Here

The Thin Place

Once a Pond in Time/Once Upon a Pond

A Pond No More

Missed

Untitled

You Two Made This (To Mend from Within)

With Hope, There Is That Possibility

When