Category Archives: Family History

Christmas Story by Carlos Najera

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jedwardnajera

I made it to the fifth grade. It wasn’t easy. In fact I hated school. A lot of kids gave me a hard time, and many of the teachers were no better. I remembered my father telling me how important … Continue reading →

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Doña Margarita

Posted on September 10, 2020 by jedwardnajera

   Here’s a “Kodak moment” with me and my grandma back in 1948. Her name was Margarita Ledesma. All my life she looked the same. She never changed. I have a picture of her when she was a young lady, … Continue reading →

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El Centro

Posted on July 14, 2020 by jedwardnajera

   Here I am. In the background I can see the front of our house in El Centro, California, in the Imperial Valley. It is just a couple of miles from the Mexico/U.S. border.  It was a small town back … Continue reading →

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Prologue of the Fairies

Posted on June 15, 2020 by jedwardnajera

   They are here, right now. They are among us, and all about us, the fairies. They hear our thoughts and the beatings of our hearts. And in our deepest sleep they dance inside our dreams and dust our days … Continue reading →

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At the Blue Onion

Posted on June 9, 2020 by jedwardnajera

   Everyone was gone, just Cousin Boy and I were in the house.  He was baby sitting me again, although I was starting to think I was getting too old now to need a baby sitter.  I was eight years … Continue reading →

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Sunset

Posted on April 15, 2020 by jedwardnajera

Did you know? Did you really know? That the last time That you saw me was the last time you saw me?   Did you know that The last thing I saw was your tail lights glowing red through the … Continue reading →

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Doña Christina

Posted on September 22, 2019 by jedwardnajera

(1910 to 1981) Christina Ledesma child of Odilón and Margarita Ledesma. She had three brothers, Faustino, Melesio, and Eduardo. She had three sisters, Manuela, Katherine, and Emily. Christina was born in Lake Elsinore, near Riverside California. Her family moved to … Continue reading →

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Entreat Me Not

Posted on September 3, 2019 by jedwardnajera

                                                           March 22, 1975 We were both students at San Jose State … Continue reading →

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Dust of the Moon

Posted on August 19, 2019 by jedwardnajera

“My name is Carlos Leonardo Nájera de Madrid.” This is how my father begins his life story. I am not sure when he started writing. It might’ve been in the 1960s or 70s. But I remember seeing him many nights … Continue reading →

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Star Watch

Posted on July 26, 2019 by jedwardnajera

In the Imperial Valley, my father, and I suppose many other people, stepped outside to enjoy the cooler evening air of a hot summer night. I was just a toddler but I remember. He would stand or sit on the … Continue reading →

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