The Bench
AfterSTROKE
The Crying Game
The Rites (Wrongs) Of Spring
The Boy Who Was Loved Back
Time Immemorial
Driving Irish
My Wild Irish Hike
Ireland My Ireland
The White Line
Fa, La, La, La, La
40,000 Miles
Wrong-Way Boat am Danube
El Cajón
| Isabel Bearman Bucher
continues her honeymoon with life, after completing five years out of the
classroom. She and husband Robert did the USA from coast to coast this
summer. Her first book, Nonno's Monkey, An Italian American Memoir, is
complete.
Isabel writes: "Richard, if you'd like info about my book, Nonno's Monkey, you can go to: , when you get time and see the site. It's taken enormous effort and money - but, I'm reminded of a quote about writing: `The ideas and words come down from where our brains have linked somewhere in the cosmos, travel down our arms and go to our fingers, and bleed all over the keys.` "At any rate I can but hope and desire to make some freelance money keeps me going. "We've had some home exchanges--in Austria we got on a "wrong-way" boat. I don't think I pitched that to you, but what a howl it was, and it ended up being the best adventure of our almost two months in Vienna, and the best dinner." |
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A first generation Italian American, Isabel was born into small town USA, Branford, Connecticut. She grew up in the 40's with a Nonna who had a college degree in fine arts, questioned everything, invented lots, and earned a living as a portrait painter. Her mother Marie, was a self taught accoutant, so that blew any chances of blaming her math deficiencies on the maternal side. Her father, an inventor, dragged the family to Houston in the late 40's, and later to Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he accepted a position with the Atomic Energy Commision as a draftsman. There since, she married LeRoy, Jewish, and melded their traditions. He died tragically when she was 39 of a totally wrecked heart. Left with two daughters, and about 80 bucks in the bank, she went forward, because that was the only choice. She re-married Robert Bucher, three years later, the girls grew, finished college, the dogs died and the bird flew out. She retired, from teaching after twenty years, where she taught first, fifth and gifted education. Now free, at last, a self-taught writer, she's become a trained aerobic instructor, and continues her complete love affair with the outdoors, backpacking, hiking and running the great American landscapes, which make them hers. Isabel and Robert continue to enjoy their cabin in Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, aka: le grand money pit, and have discovered home exchanging. After a grand summer in Ireland in 98, they plan a Y2k summer in Italy, with the girls to find roots, recipes and adventure.
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