Books by Diana Dell

Memories Are Like Clouds

by Diana J. Dell

Memories Are Like Clouds
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Memories Are Like Clouds
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Memories Are Like Clouds immediately drifts back to childhood after the funeral of a soldier killed in Vietnam. Kenny and his sister Diana's young world was the mill-town neighborhood they inhabited with Eastern European immigrants and their offspring during the Eisenhower fifties. This touching memoir is a fond remembrance of growing up when life seemed simple.

Gliding on the porch swing while listening to their mother's stories of her youth, counting dead goldfish at the five-and-ten cent store, playing pick-up baseball games down near the dump, collecting Ralph Kiner and Stan Musial baseball cards, helping Daddy at his candy business, devouring Sgt. Rock comic books, and running numbers for the neighborhood bookie in a housedress filled those innocent days in East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania.

In this book readers will meet dozens of memorable characters: Mrs. Trotaskovich, the widow across the street, who called her bowels "barrels" and ate prunes from morning till night; Herr Fromer, the traveling baker who sang opera on the radio; Cazzy and Sousha, the town's biggest gossips; Uncle Caz, who could tell when it was going to rain by the shrapnel pain in his back; the hunchback of All Saints Polish Roman Catholic Church; normally sweet Uncle Bobby, a Tourette's Syndrome sufferer; witchy Mitzy, the candy store owner; Mr. Jaztremsky, the washing machine repairman and Bataan Death March survivor; Mutzy Futzy, the neighborhood bully; war heroes Man Mountain and the PNA janitor.

Weaved together here are the universal and the particular, experiences shared with millions of other baby boomers (that first television set, polio season, iceboxes, telephone party lines, drive-in movies, "Amos 'n Andy," hula hoops, the milk man, Davy Crockett coonskin hats, Sputnik) and those individuals and situations unique to a specific place or family (the ragman and his tired old horse, Father Shezocki's rumored-wife, the Polish Barber's dirty adventure magazines, Bupchie's chicken coop, shotgun weddings at the Slovak Club).

Every page has something wonderful--a perfect turn of phrase, a trace of quiet wisdom. Here are great teachers, crabby neighbors, pious sinners, and valiant men and women, the everyday heroes who faced disaster with good cheer and usually muddled through.

This coming-of-age tale, filled with hope and old-fashioned values, will delight and engage and then, long afterward, persist in memory.

A SAIGON PARTY:
And Other Vietnam War Short Stories

by Diana J. Dell

A Saigon Party:
And Other Vietnam War Short Stories
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A Saigon Party:
And Other Vietnam War Short Stories
Kindle Book at Amazon

In 1970, two years after her brother Kenny was killed in the Mekong Delta, Diana Dell went to Vietnam as a civilian with USO. For the first six months, she was a program director at the USO Aloha Club at 22nd Replacement Battalion in Cam Ranh Bay, then this humanitarian organization's in-country director of public relations, and also the host of a daily radio show, "USO Showtime," on American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN), the military station in Saigon.

As an eyewitness to the most significant event of the coming-of-age Baby Boom Generation, she claims that she will be telling war stories until her final moment on this earth.

However, Diana’s tales--some exaggerated, many true--are not about battles, blood, gore, or angst. They are about participants of the war other than grunts: CIA agents, bar girls, war profiteers, missionaries, donut dollies, strippers, civilian contractors, pilots, cooks, telephone operators, disc jockeys, rock stars, landladies, pedicab drivers, generals, Buddhist monks, movie stars, pickpockets, politicians, prostitutes, prisoners, beggars, nightclub owners, drug counselors, Montagnard tribesmen, foreign correspondents, ambassadors, doctors, humanitarians, celebrity tourists, and other REMFs, civilian as well as military.

Irreverent, scornful, profane, sardonic, creative, clever, cynical, unique, sarcastic, original, satirical, witty, trenchant, intelligent, cheeky, and insightful are a few of the words used to describe A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories, which includes:

"Barbie and Ken Experience the War"

"A Pedicab Driver Peddles Through History"

"Sunning on the Deck"

"A CIA Hired Wife Bares Her Soul"

"The 4th of July"

"Major Holloway, Lifer"

"The Vietnamese Rock Star Interview on AFVN"

"Yolanda's Favorite Beggar"

"Saigon Rumors"

"Barbie's Combat Zone Diary"

"General Westmoreland's Houseboy (and VC Spy) Talks"

"The Library Card"

"The Glazed Donut Dolly Reminisces"

"The Philanthropic Executives"

"The War Through Pamela Rose's Eyes"

"A Saigon Warrior's Journal"

"Rob Clawson, Soldier of Fortune"

"The VC Colonel, a.k.a. Hannah"

"The American Journalist's Deathbed Confession"

"Dan Quayle's Double"

Memorable Quotations:
Women Journalists of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
Women Journalists of the Past (Kindle Book)

Memorable Quotations:
U.S. Democrats of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
U.S. Democrats of the Past (Kindle Book)

Memorable Quotations:
U.S. Republicans of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
U.S. Republicans of the Past (Kindle Book)

Memorable Quotations:
Women Playwrights of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
Women Playwrights of the Past (Kindle Book)

Memorable Quotations:
Women Poets of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
Women Poets of the Past (Kindle Book)

Memorable Quotations:
New England Writers

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
American Novelists of the Past (Kindle Book)

Memorable Quotations:
American Novelists of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
American Novelists of the Past (Kindle Book)

Memorable Quotations:
American Women Writers of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
American Women Writers of the Past
Paperback at Amazon

Memorable Quotations:
American Women Writers of the Past
Kindle Book at Amazon

Jane Ace, Abigail Smith Adams, Jane Laura Addams, Zoe Akins, Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Anderson, Katharine Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Antin, Minna Thomas Antrim, Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Mary Hunter Austin, Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, Dorothy Dodds Baker, Faith Baldwin, Bettina Ballard, Margaret Culkin Banning, Djuna Barnes, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Amelia Barr, Clara Barton, Vicki Baum, Mary Ritter Beard, Catharine Esther Beecher, Helen Olcott Bell, Ruth Fulton Benedict, Mary McLeod Bethune, Elizabeth Bishop, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Louise Bogan, Erma Bombeck, Margaret Bourke-White, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Anna C. Brackett, Mary Gardiner Brainard, Fawn M. Brodie, Alice Williams Brotherton, Olympia Brown, Pearl S. Buck, Frances Eliza Burnett, Amelia Josephine Burr, Taylor Caldwell, Rachel Carson, Willa Cather, Carrie Chapman Catt, Maria Weston Chapman, Mary Catherwood, Mary Bokin Chestnut, Lydia M. Child, Kate Chopin, Anna Julia Cooper, Dorothy Day, Agnes De Mille, Babette Deutsch, Helene Deutsch, Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Dix, Mary Mapes Dodge, Rheta Childe Dorr, Elizabeth Drew, Isadora Duncan, Amelia Earhart, Crystal Eastman, Mary Baker Eddy, Augusta Jane Evans, Eliza Farnham, Edna Ferber, Fanny Fern, M. F. K. Fisher, Minnie Fiske, Zelda Fitzgerald, Doris Fleeson, Esther Forbes, Margaret Fuller, Zona Gale, Martha Gellhorn, Katherine Gerould, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Laura Gilpin, Mary Barnett Gilson, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Emma Goldman, Ruth Gordon, Margaret Collier Graham, Angelina Grimke, Edith Hamilton, Gail Hamilton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Corra May Harris, Helen Hathaway, Jane Heap, Lillian Hellman, Beatrice Hinkle, Billie Holiday, Karen Horney, Zora Neale Hurston, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Jackson, Alice James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mother Jones, Vivien Kellems, Helen Keller, Sophie Kerr, Francis Parkinson Keyes, Dorothy Kilgallen, Maggie Kuhn, Suzanne Lafollette, Rose Wilder Lane, Suzanne K. Langer, Anita Loos, Audre Lorde, Amy Lawrence Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Margaret S. Mahler, Elisabeth Marbury, Frances Marion, Elsa Maxwell, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Phyllis McGinley, Maria McIntosh, Margaret Mead, Agnes Meyer, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Alice Duer Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, Anne Shannon Monroe, Marianne Moore, Louise Moulton, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anais Nin, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O'Connor, Gretta Brooker Palmer, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Emily Post, Margaret Preston, Emily James Putnam, Ayn Rand, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Agnes Repplier, Alice Caldwell Rice, Laura Riding, Constance Roarke, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Harriet Robinson, Ida P. Rolf, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Rowland, Helena Rubinstein, Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Sanger, Margaret E. Sangster, May Sarton, Evelyn Scott, Janet Scudder, Anne Sexton, Anna Howard Shaw, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Anne Smedley, Betty Smith, Lillian Smith, Anna Garlin Spencer, Leonora Speyer, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Edith Mendel Stern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anne Sullivan, Jane Grey Swisshelm, Ida Tarbell, Sara Teasdale, Clara Thompson, Dorothy Thompson, Alice B. Toklas, Barbara Tuchman, Jane Colman Turell, Brenda Ueland, Amy Vanderbilt, Katharine Walker, Mrs. H. O. Ward, Carolyn Wells, Ida B. Wells, Jessamyn West, Mae West, Edith Wharton, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mary Day Winn, Thyra Samter Winslow, and Maud Younger.

Memorable Quotations:
Famous Teachers of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
Famous Teachers of the Past
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Memorable Quotations:
Famous Teachers of the Past
Kindle Book at Amazon

Lord Acton, Henry Brooks Adams, John Adams, A. Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, Isaac Asimov, W. H. Auden, Saint Augustine, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Bergson, Allan Bloom, Charlotte Brontė, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Carlyle, Willa Cather, Confucius, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Will Durant, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Georg Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Lyndon B. Johnson, James Joyce, Immanuel Kant, D. H. Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Herbert Marcuse, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, May Sarton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Seneca, Adam Smith, Socrates, Anne Sullivan, Henry David Thoreau, Lionel Trilling, Booker T. Washington, Evelyn Waugh, Simone Weil, Thornton Wilder, and Woodrow Wilson

Memorable Quotations:
Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past

by Diana J. Dell

Memorable Quotations:
Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past
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Memorable Quotations:
Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past
Kindle Book at Amazon

Features 200 famous (and not so well-known) humorists, wits, and satirists of the past, including Minna Antrim, Tallulah Bankhead, Bernard Baruch, Brendan Behan, Robert Benchley, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Bertolt Brecht, Vera Brittain, Heywood Broun, Gelett Burgess, Lord Byron, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Charlie Chaplin, Lord Chesterfield, Agatha Christie, Cyril Connolly, Benjamin Disraeli, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Goodman, Ian Hay, Kin Hubbard, Alice James, Alfred Jarry, Karl Kraus, Andrew Lang, Walter Lippmann, David Lloyd George, Harriet Martineau, Groucho Marx, Mary McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, O. Henry, Dorothy Parker, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Jules Renard, Will Rogers, Helen Rowland, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, Fulton J. Sheen, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Logan Pearsall Smith, John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, E. B. White, and Oscar Wilde.

A Saigon Party:
And Other Vietnam War Short Stories

Barbie and Ken Experience the War

A Pedicab Driver Peddles Through History

A CIA Hired Wife Bares Her Soul

The Vietnamese Rock Star Interview on AFVN

Yolanda's Favorite Beggar

Saigon Rumors

General Westmoreland's Houseboy (and VC Spy) Talks

The Library Card

A Saigon Warrior's Journal

Vietnam War at Amazon

Vietnam War on DVD at Amazon

Vietnam War Kindle Books

VietnamWar.net

The Literary Hootch, Part 1

The Literary Hootch, Part 2

The Literary Hootch, Part 3

Vietnam War Destinations, Part 1

Vietnam War Destinations, Part 2

Vietnam War Destinations, Part 3

Vietnam War Destinations, Part 4

Vietnam War History, Part 1

Vietnam War History, Part 2

Vietnam War History, Part 3

Vietnam War History, Part 4

Vietnam War Research Material, Part 1

Vietnam War Research Material, Part 2

Vietnam War Research Material, Part 3

Vietnam War Research Material, Part 4

The French in Vietnam

Vietnam War Battles, Campaigns, Offensives, Operations, Programs

Vietnam War Aircrafts

Vietnam War Documents, Speeches, Papers

Vietnam War Cities, Districts, Installations, Places, Provinces

Vietnam War Weapons and Equipment

Vietnam and U.S. Presidents

Vietnam War Humor

Vietnam Religions

The Media: Vietnam War

U.S. Allies in the Vietnam War

Vietnam War Antiwar

Political and Government Figures Involved in the Vietnam War

Trips to Vietnam

The Vietnamese: Vietnam War

Women and the Vietnam War

Vietnam War Films

Vietnam War Fiction Books

Vietnam War Books by Women Writers

Vietnam War Short Story Books

Vietnam War Screenplays

Military Leaders in the Vietnam War

Vietnam War Memorials

Vietnam War Battalions, Brigades, Corps, Divisions, Organizations, Units

Vietnam War Poetry

The Wall: Vietnam War

Vietnam War Quiz

Vietnam War Quotations

Vietnam War Books, Part 1

Vietnam War Books, Part 2

World War II Films (Part 1)

World War II Films (Part 2)

Memories Are Like Clouds

A Saigon Party:
And Other Vietnam War Short Stories

VietnamWar.net
http://www.vietnamwar.net