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Fitsmiolé* Magazine

Copyright 2013 by Maureen Fitzmahan

Published by mbfitzmahan publishing

Originally published in the United States and Japan in 2013No part of this work may be published without the permission of the publisher.

Artwork by Kaitlin Fitzmahan (http://sometimestangible.blogspot.jp/2011/06/past-few-days.html)

Photos by Maureen B. Fitzmahan

*Fitzmahan, Strange, Michel, Mahollitz

MAHOLLITZ

TWINS　赤ちゃん　

　les jemelles

FITSMIOLÉ NEWSErin and Eric having twins

Erin and Eric are having babies!

Due date is March 21, 2014!

Erin went to the doctor for her first ultrasound

at the end of July. The doctor showed Eric and Erin the image of their baby. Wow! There are not one, but two placentas! What did that mean?...it couldn’t be...Yes! Erin is carrying two babies!

Twin Mahollitz babies! The babies are growing well and excited to see the family next summer.

le dernier cri

HAIR STYLE

Gibson girl of the 90s - 1890s!

Beautiful girls

Aunt JackieErinKatieMaureen

Katie’s Graduation

After a two year program in Community Development,

Kaitlin has graduated with a Masters from the University of

California in Davis. Katie wrote a masters’ thesis on public

art murals in San Francisco. Katie covered the history and

workings of Precita Eyes, a San Francisco organization,

strongly influenced by the muralists’ movement of Jose

Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera in Mexico. Katie

collaborated with Susan Cervantes who founded the

nationally acclaimed Precita Eyes in the 1970s. According to Katie, “Over the

course of a nine-month internship and from forty surveys and twelve

interviews I was able to paint a detailed and personally informed picture of

the community murals of Precita Eyes and the 24th Street Mission District.”

Highly praised for her unique study and groundbreaking research, Kaitlin has

been invited to present her work for publication.

FITSMIOLÉ NEWSMasters from U.C. Davis

I don’t get it. You know…Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith. What’s to like? Last

names that begin with “s?”

In my day we had the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Names that begin with “b.”

Fringy haircuts and “Can I hold your hand.” We were so revolutionary! Imagine

… white boys singing about blonde girls on the beach. Ok, so not so deep, but

what about the beat?

Generations gap. My own generation gapped me. I preferred folk music. Peter,

Paul and Mary. Joan Baez. I was proud I was different. But that was what the

60s and 70s were about. Being different.

Peace not war. I wish I had been the first to say that. Peace, love and other stuff.

We protested Vietnam and those warmongers. You know, the military industrialist

complex. Ok, so I wasn’t so different. But, I liked to think I was. I wore brown

dumpy shoes that squeaked when I walked “Do you have a license to wear

those?” I wore a linen shirt that flowed diaphanously over my slight build. I like

that word “diaphanous.” I have never used it before, but it sounds good and that

is what my blouse was.

ESSAY

A REPORTER AT LARGE

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RECIPE

“Did you try the curry spice blend we gave you at Christmas?” Shauna asked.  “It is sooo very easy. And so good!  Start with  ghee and then go from there.”  

IngredientsGheeSpices and onion & garliconion-choppedgarlic- choppedVadouvan Spice Blend (or other yummy curry blend – best from an Indian food store): you can also  make your own.carrots – sliced into 1/2 in. piecestomatoes (1/2 can chopped or fresh chopped)potatoes – chopped into 1/2 in piecesfresh mushrooms – slicedpork, chicken or beef (sliced thin, or in 1/4 inch chunks)coconut milk (1/2 c.)Garnishfresh cilantrosliced banananuts (walnuts/pecans/cashews)raisinsorangesyogurt (thick and creamy)

Preparation If you are going to use meat, sauté in the pan until just pink, and set aside.Make ghee by taking 2 T of oil or butter and melting over a low medium heat in bottom of large fry pan.Add onions, sauté until translucent and slightly brown.  Add garlic and sauté for another minute.  Add 2 T of the spice blend and stir together. Add your harder vegetables, carrots and potatoes.  Cook until al dente , i .e. f irm but not hard. Add coconut milk.  Warm.Add  tomatoes.  Cook til hot.  Add meat and mushrooms.  Don’t overcook your mushrooms.

S’s C

RECIPE for more recipes http://mamififoodblog.wordpress.com

Mahans

Angelo, Chris Marino Erin, Eric Mahollitz Bekah, Jason AppletonJackie Smith, Katie, Maureen, Jaimie Michel, Shauna, Annabelle Fitts, Leo Don

In 1987, Chris took the microphone and gave her well

remembered speech, “You will know that this is the authentic

Mahan-Fitzmahan-Drapkin time capsule by the carefully

placed tape.” She was talking about two long white

tupperware boxes swaddled in duct tape and containing

treasures of the Mahan family. “Connie was really mad at me

for taking her tupperware,” Leo laughed. 27 years ago each

member of the family donated a treasure or a letter to put in the

boxes. Leo came up with the time capsule idea while building his deck with fine red

cedar wood guaranteed for 30 years. “What if we bury a family time capsule under

the deck?” he asked Connie. And so it happened in 1987. Leo’s simple idea became

a treasured family myth.

30 years later, the family gathered on July 7, 2013 at Chris and Angelo’s to open the

capsule. Dug up from under the deck, before the family home in Wedgwood was

sold, the capsule had been stored in a dark secret spot. Now family came from all

over the world: Seattle, New York City, Austin Texas, Berkeley California and

Nagoya, Japan. “My pound puppy!” “I forgot we put a diaper in there.”

Family members shed tears as they mourned the loss of Connie and Gary. The family

also laughed. A video was found that memorialized the time capsule day a quarter

century ago. Other than adults wrapping a time capsule, the focus in the film was on

the children. Katie toddled barefoot back and forth across the new deck. Her job was

to rearrange the pebbles scattered in the stream. Bekah’s job was to be the DJ with

the 80s boom box. And Erin and Shauna’s job was to amaze everyone with mouths

full of bubble gum.

Leo opens time capsule FITSMIOLÉ NEWS

The cousins 27 years later. Rebekah is getting her Masters in

School Counseling at Seattle Pacific University. Erin is

married to Eric and has her Masters in Education from

Seattle University. Katie has a Masters in Community

Development from the University of California-Davis.

Shauna is married to James and has a Masters in Education

from Columbia University in New York City.

Savannah, Naomi, Sophie, Sean and Tyler

Donny, Maureen, Jackie, Annabelle

Bill, Katie, Erin and Barney

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Maureen, Annabelle, Marty, Erin, Bill, Jackie Katie, Shauna

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