and lynched to john gibbons play an accordion on his wooden leg. you had the sense of people having come over if not in mass by a great number to this other place with a kind of echo of that place being transposed into the world that became my world. so that of my mother's side of the family. my father's side was more mysterious. over time i heard stories of lost aunts and saint john >> new found land which is not where they are from and a deeper echo further back. i had my grandfather's passport from 1918, you could smell the must on it. all of the mysterious presences were there. my father's side was a mystery which we will get to eventually. and the third component is similar to what margaret was talking about. i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation y

we brought in personal finance expert vera gibbons with the answers. johns this one through twitter: >> there are two education credits. in order to get them you have to claim your daughter as a dependent. however if your name is on the loan you are making regular payments you can deduct the income. that is a maximum break of $2,500. >>> deborah in lexington, kentucky this is from facebook. when you are paying monthly installments from taxes owed in 2011. can you still make out a deal for payments in 2012. >> nothing will say you have to pay off a previous installment while working off another year. the one restriction would be if your fax liability is 50,000 dollars or above. a little more cumbersome. should be fine. go to irs.gov and get the application agreement on there. bob from ohio, i just can't find the time. there are only two things in life that are certain. death and taxes. if you can't possibly do that you have to file a form 4868 you have six months to get it together. just an ex pension to file. you have to pay your best estimate of what you o