Sporadically Brian
4/4/18: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part twenty seven, The Stud Bench #2)
When I did a search for images to go with this story, I found the above. It's from a 2014 YouTube video I'd never seen before. It's by ActorVarunPruthi. Please check it out. ----------------------------------------------------- ...the time [...]
4/3/18: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part twenty seven, The Stud Bench #1)
I’ve made that entire wing of school (where the art rooms and the theater and music rooms are) a comfortable place for me to be. ------------------------------------------------- But the art, theater and music building wasn't always [...]
4/2/18: Cars and Dreams (Part twelve, Freedom Fantasies and a Taste of “The Dark Side”)
John Marshal High School had an “open campus” in those days. The school day wasn’t quite as free of a scheduling system as the brand new and modern modular scheduling we’d experienced in Junior High, [...]
4/1/18: Cars and Dreams (Part eleven, The Icy Road Spinout That Was… but Someplace Else)
It's mid-afternoon on a Saturday in December, 1976... my senior year at John Marshal High School in my home town of Rochester, Minnesota. I'm driving to school and I need to pick up Nancy on [...]
3/31/18: Cars and Dreams (Part ten, The Broken Sway Bar that Never Was)
Yes, my dad was a good man. Yes, I loved and respected him. Yes, I didn't want to disappoint him. Yes, I lied to him without thinking twice when I felt I needed to. Well... [...]
3/30/18: Cars and Dreams (Part nine, “These are NOT! your Friends, Brian” #3)
The older I get, the more I have been enjoying the small, subtle ways I can see how I am very much like my Dad. ---------------------------------------------- I do so love the memory of my Dad. [...]