Bacon’s Revenge
Blame the Puritans
My Ancestry profile updated recently.
Per Ancestry, DNA doesn’t change. The data collected over time increases and further assists in a more definitive analysis resulting in an update.
It’s enough to make a girl get her Irish up - or down - depending on which way the numbers crunch.
I am always intrigued by my profile’s 1% outliers. Portugal - a consistent profile one percenter - currently finds itself partnered down low on the list with my new where in the world is Sardinia?
Sometimes, families keep “stuff” on the down low. Stuff back in the day the pious took to the grave.
The kind of stuff society used to inflict shame on people, to make them feel less than.
A spit in the vial has changed all that long ago drama and hopefully, helps to end the resulting generational trauma.
It’s important to know where you come from.
Odd though, that stuffing remains a traditional side served at Thanksgiving dinner.
Bacon’s Revenge explores a family in a tangle.
Published online by KYSO Flash (Issue 10, Fall 2018), the story was also included in the KYSO print anthology Accidents of Light, KYSO Flash 2018.
Many thanks, editor Clare MacQueen.
I fell in with the hogs the afternoon my mother decided to take a drive up the mountain. “The mountain,” she said, “is where men live with their second wives in fancy houses while their first families live in squalor down in the valley.”
Read Bacon’s Revenge in its entirety here
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A Sardinian on trend perfect proverb to recite days on end
Dare a tenner sa coe de s’ambidda.*
Translation:
You might as well try to hold an eel by the tail.
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Discover Sardinia with Anthony Bourdain here.
*Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 480