Family Fun Facts
For Nona Pa and Uncle Adam It all started the other day as my father and I were sitting on the terrace. I was asking if my mother's father had small eyes. I was asking to explain the Asian look that my sister, my mom, and my Uncle Adam has/d—their eyes are tiny and squinty, different from my own, which are big and almondy. I have my Nona Pa's sisters eyes—my dad's side. "Well, Mom and Uncle Adam both have Caterpillar eyebrows," I said. "And the other side is half-brows," my father said. And I started to laugh. The story goes thusly: My Nona Pa was a Beauty School Dropout, but while she was still attending the establishment she decided to craft her own statement on shaping eyebrows; she decided to saw them in half. And women went for it! Soon the whole group of ladies in her class were walking around with half-brows. I think she got booted out after that, but that is just the way I would like to finish the tale. It makes h...