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Life Long Learning 2025 Series - Deb Derrickson Kossmann '82 - "Lost Found Kept-A Memoir-How a Psychologist Coped with a Loved One's Hoarding and Lived to Tell the Story" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/e2e408a5-37e4-40bb-a950-601138f8293f/F3425164-A13C-4CC8-AB8D-54117349A393.jpeg News & Events - Make it stand out Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6pm | Evening Reading and Author Talk, The Castle, Arcadia University 405 S. Easton Rd. Glenside PA 19038 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/de412dca-ac60-49d0-81d6-23f5f6ca2dd3/Screenshot+2025-03-04+11.34.42+AM.png News & Events - Make it stand out Thursday March 27, 2025 5pm | AWP Trio House Press Bookfair, Los Angeles, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/f8455113-1706-449a-9112-d42b2c85a28b/IMG_8363.jpeg News & Events - Make it stand out Saturday March 1, 2025 1pm-3pm | Reading and Signing Fireside Book Shop, 29 N. 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(2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/c9583f9d-b7ce-4628-99f6-acc09a5c8ae6/DDK+with+lemur+-+Amy+Sancetta.jpeg Image Collections - People & Memories A baby lemur, one of the Philadelphia Zoo's residents in the animal nursery at the time, climbs up for a photo. Animal babies were always good for news coverage. Photo by Amy Sancetta. (1984) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/66da3a51-ac3f-4195-9710-83f8989ca5b6/photo.jpeg Image Collections - People & Memories Me with my best friend, Fran, during the first America's Greatest Teddy Bear Rally. I ran this event when I worked at the Philadephia Zoo. Fran was between college and grad school at the time and helped me out by wearing animal costumes at events, like this bear costume, a gorilla suit and an owl. She has since forgiven me. Photo by Amy Sancetta. (1983) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/95213973-1111-4f04-ab9f-08811fadcdd5/DDKat+desk.jpeg Image Collections - People & Memories Me, around age nine, writing at my desk in my bedroom while listening to music. (1969) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/1940a040-c8a4-435b-94b5-a6a9dc24001e/Photo086.jpg Image Collections - People & Memories Melissa and me lounging in my parent's bedroom watching TV and snuggling with Tommy, the twenty-pound ginger cat who was our "furred brother" growing up. (1967) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/d496cec1-9a95-4ce7-bbf1-e774acad3986/Photo029.jpg Image Collections - People & Memories My mother, me, Melissa and my stepfather, "Daddy" outside his parent's house in Connecticut when I was four. (1964) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/91c4e245-2bb2-44b9-973b-9526163fc6e3/Photo030.jpg Image Collections - People & Memories Me around age one, making sure my biological father, Malcolm, eats his snack too. (1961) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/95ca0509-7000-45f2-ad00-9ddf48b24fb8/Photo12.jpg Image Collections - People & Memories The missing "goat" photo of (left to right) my maternal grandmother (Nanna), her eldest brother, Sumner, and her older sister, Frances who was tragically killed a few years after this photo was taken. This is the only picture that exists of Frances. I have no idea what the story is with the goat. We believe it was a family pet. (Date unknown-possibly 1908 or thereabouts) https://www.lostfoundkept.com/image-collections/cleaning-house monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/1726584939755-ZUL7Q77S0ATX7WGKSRER/IMG_3436.JPG+outside+newspapers.JPG Image Collections - Cleaning House Detail of the wet and disintegrating newspaper stacks along the outside wall of my mother's house. Photo by Jacqueline Larma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/ef496365-029a-458a-aceb-26f2b3c488ab/IMG_3651.jpeg Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 1 - In front of the garage with Marc removing everything inside my mother's car before we take it to be salvaged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/e369ee87-075a-480f-a6f5-c932ecfa1358/IMG_3642.jpeg Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 1 - Marc walking on the "path" of crunched down objects and garbage inside the house between the dining room and living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/8f0c6451-6227-4b72-8d71-1747cb876cb5/IMG_3648.jpeg Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 2 - View from the upstairs hallway down the "stairway" to the living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/6f6acbb6-7603-41f1-87cc-4439192fcc11/IMG-3392-JPG-bed-wide-color.JPG Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 9 - Melissa's childhood cast iron bed buried in ruined possessions and garbage. My mother slept there after my sister left home. Photo by Jacqueline Larma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/20c21cab-3f53-4b0a-be59-dfe7b9da2fb4/IMG_3657.jpeg Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 9 - Marc taking a break in the backyard contemplating his next task. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/01245189-c623-4124-bba2-d313eee8d53f/Kitchenview.jpg Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 9 - View from the dining room, looking into the kitchen on the left. Jackie's photograph captures the disorientation of the cleanout. Photo by Jacqueline Larma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/6fb65395-3730-43ef-bf20-cdda272cd4d7/IMG_3711.jpeg Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 10 - Marc and I taking our "Having a Great Vacation!" pic for social media with our decorated N-95 masks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66ce1fb307dd4246aad7115d/9f788a77-935e-4a7f-839f-e7beea98db8c/IMG_3412.JPG+bedroom+view.JPG Image Collections - Cleaning House Day 14 - View out of the front of the house from behind the ripped lace curtains of my old bedroom. Below, in the driveway, is one of the three dumpsters we filled. You can also see some of the 320 contractor bags lined up along the curb. Photo by Jacqueline Larma.