An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

Mom’s parents, Eleanor and Spencer, also lived
in Queens, and we visited them on weekends. Spence,
was the comptroller for the Vanderbilt Hotel in Manhattan.
He usually wore a three piece suit and owned
a car. We enjoyed watching baseball together. He took
me to see the Brooklyn Dodgers. We walked in Prospect
Park after Thanksgiving dinner at his apartment.
When I was four, we moved to Ridgewood,
and my brother Mike was born. We lived in a cold
water, walk up apartment with a kerosene heater. The
bath tub was in the
kitchen so pots of hot
water from the stove
could be added for
bathing. My father
worked for Fernandez
Detective Agency as
an armed guard and
got the name “Wild
Bill.” I regretted living
on the Queens side of
Linden Street because
Brooklyn across the
street was so much
hipper.
There was a Catholic church down the block
where I played with friends climbing among the statues
of saints on the facade and peering inside the
dark mysterious church. A Lutheran church up the
block was where I attended Sunday School and
played Little Boy Blue in the Christmas play.
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