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12/18/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part twelve, Another One Rides the Bus #4)
Keith was my school bus superhero... Perhaps my adult self is exaggerating a bit. I doubt he had a clue as to the impact of this one thing he did, that one morning on the [...]
12/17/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with the Modern Teenage Brain (Part eleven, Another One Rides the Bus #3)
Not all bullies are created equal, you know? But their effect on others are usually the same. Fear, and coping. I was afraid, just like the rest of the kids on the bus. So I [...]
12/16/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part ten, Another One Rides the Bus #2)
I'm standing at the end of our long country driveway, waiting for the bus. Not yet six o'clock. My thirteen-year-old body has yet to start the growth spurt that will have me towering over most [...]
12/15/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part nine, Good Morning Good Boy!)
"Up and Adam!... Let's go boys! Let's go!" Actually, Dad rarely had to roust me like he did my younger brother Clark many years later when he was a teenager. Good boy me was almost [...]
12/14/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part eight, Another One Rides the Bus #1)
Nothing modern Nothing new Fear and coping With the few --------------------------------- And it really is only a few who make the difference. The difference between a group of dynamic, joyful young people sharing snippets of [...]
12/13/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part seven, Family Planning)
I'm going to piggy-back on yesterday's post remembering some joy, and take this opportunity (and it won't be the last) to gush a bit about what wonderful parents I was bless to have been born [...]