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12/25/17 Christmas in China (1991)
Christmas Guangzhou, China December 25th 1991. My parents were teaching English at Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences and living in the foreign students dormitory. But another aspect of their job was that they were [...]
12/24/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part thirteen, Another One Rides the Bus #5)
It's just another fall morning on Steiger road (the Steiger family owned the largest farm in these parts, but much of it has been sold off over the years) and I'm standing at the end of our [...]
12/23/17: The Fat Kid Who Never Was (Part three, Damned Lucky)
They were trying to parent differently… better than what they had had. ---------------------------------------------------- And from where I sit today, my parents were successful, and I was damned lucky. Lucky that; despite the fact that every [...]
12/22/17: The Fat Kid Who Never Was (Part two, Where’s the Beef?)
I have no photos of that ten-year-old "fat kid", struggling to please my athlete father by not complaining when I found myself playing little league football with kids two and four years older than me. [...]
12/21/17: The Fat Kid Who Never Was (Part one, Made not Born)
"I don't care what they call me," he said confidentially, "so long as they don't call me what they used to call me in school." Ralph was faintly interested. "What was that?" The fat boy [...]
12/20/17: Deviation and Affirmation, A Cruel Paradox
Well I used to be a good boy, but that’s a long time ago If it was ever good for anything it’s in the stories I have told ------------------------------------------------------------ Indeed, This process of looking back [...]