Borzelleca, Louise Anne – 45

Subjects:
Love, marriage, family, illness and dying; the Greatest Generation, life as an immigrant from Italy; the Flu Epidemic of 1918

Writing Description:
“Weaving a String of Gold,” a manuscript, tells of the love that brought my husband, Tony, and I together and kept us tied to each other through unfathomable sadness. Tony suffered a brain injury due to oxygen deprivation from a cardiac arrest. He no longer knew me or remembered our past life together.

The book covers our childhood, adolescence, adulthood, love story, raising our two girls, our four grandsons, Tony’s cardiac history and eight years at home together after his illness until his death. I delved into our Italian ancestry. I felt it further described the persons whom we had become. My husband’s life is covered from 1931 until his death in 2005; mine from 1940; and our grandparents who came from Italy to Philadelphia in 1900.

Writing Type:
Auto/Mem

Gender:
Female

Birth Year:
1940

Death Year:

Occupation and Interests:
Widow, mother, grandmother, cardiac registered nurse; enjoy reading, writing, hiking, baby sitting, visiting elderly aunts, being with friends

Published a short story, “The Promise” in Bibliophilos, Bibliophile Publishing Company, Inc. and a poem, “My Winged Courser,” in the community college newsletter, The Writers’ Gazette.

Age(s):
56 – 63

Author Location(s):
Harleysville, Pennsylvania

Writing Location(s):
Philadelphia and small towns in the vicinity; our Pocono Mountain retreat; seashore at Ocean City, New Jersey; Italy

Dates:
1900 – 2005

Handwritten:

Typed:
Yes

Digital:

Self-published:

Number of Pages, etc.:
300

Contact Person:
Louise Anne Borzelleca

Contact Person/Author Relationship:
Same

Address:
Contact LWC

Phone:

Email:

Date Entered:
06/2010

Date Revised/Confirmed:

Entry Filed under: 1. Listings,A. Type:,Autobiography/Memoir,b,B. Gender:,C. Last Name:,Female