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    • Editor's Pick
    • 31 Ratings
    • 4611 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    My Father's House

    OCTOBER 12, 2011 2:23PM

    By Sandra Stephens


    Topics: my parents' secret history, open call

    • 1 Ratings
    • 251 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Back to the formerly uncomplicated future

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 6:18PM

    By johannaLG


    Topics: my parents' secret history, open call, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 57 Ratings
    • 3940 Views
    • 70 Comments
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    The Girl with the Cut-Out Face

    SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 10:24AM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: my parents' secret history, life, relationships, schizophrenia, aunt, open call

    • 32 Ratings
    • 2013 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Father's Dirty Little Secret is No More

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 1:32PM

    By Tinkerbelle Nitely


    Topics: child abuse statitistics, child abuse hotline, my parents' secret history, child abuse, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 53 Ratings
    • 2595 Views
    • 63 Comments
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    What a Quarter Will Buy

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 8:45AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: i think of this whenever i eat coconut, daughters, sons, fathers, my parents' secret history, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1581 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    My Grandfather's Silence: Secrets Under the Bombing Above

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 1:30PM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: my parents' secret history, open call, family, grandfather, war, tunnels, london

    • 0 Ratings
    • 216 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The best part of me is him

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 8:55AM

    By mkromd


    Topics: my parents' secret history, open call, my karma ran over my dogma, mkromd

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2529 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Dad had His Own Secret

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 1:03AM

    By nerd cred


    Topics: my parents' secret history

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2340 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Dad almost took his war memories to the grave. Almost.

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 1:54AM

    By SnippytheGrammarDog


    Topics: don't take your family history to the grave, mystics seers and dreamers, second sight, hospital corpsman, gangs of la 1940s-style, purple heart, korean war, korean conflict, chosin reservoir, george wykel, my parents' secret lives, my parents' secret history

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1830 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Joan Crawford's skinflicks (and other Family Secrets)

    SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 2:01PM

    By Curtis Hagedorn


    Topics: books, video, television, belief/religion, open+call, technology, science, politics, poetry, news, movies, health, gossip, gay/lesbian, feminism, fashion, family, environment, economy, comedy, business, books, belief/religion, open call, my parents' secret history

    • 34 Ratings
    • 2533 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    54

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 8:49PM

    By Just Thinking...


    Topics: memoir, not really that kind of secret history but a secret history nonetheless, my parents' secret history, fathers, family

    • 29 Ratings
    • 765 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    MY PARENTS' SECRET LIVES --- WHA?

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 2:56PM

    By Tinkerertink69


    Topics: my parents' secret history, open+call, family

    • 6 Ratings
    • 2517 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Open Call: My parents' secret history

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 11:32AM

    By Emily Holleman


    Topics: open call, my parents' secret history

    • 12 Ratings
    • 1005 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    WOBBLIES: Grandma's Secret--'Coming Honestly' to My Politics

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 6:52AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: eugene v. debs, mother jones, luci parsons, joe hill, big bill haywood, mickey mouse, cloche hats, grandparents, great-grandparents, industrial workers of the world, wobblies, my mother's mother, flappers grass skirts, ukeleles, radicals, anarchists, shul, new york, paterson, new jersey, adoption, tamar and our son, orlando, florida, the bronx, rituals, rites, my parents' secret history

    • Editor's Pick
    • 65 Ratings
    • 2798 Views
    • 70 Comments
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    A change in course

    JUNE 18, 2009 6:44PM

    By bbd


    Topics: my father as a person, father, family, father's day, truth, lies, changing course, open call, a retro-active open call, my parents' secret history

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