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12/28/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part sixteen, Fun in the Rebel Factory)
... this factory was there to manufacture… rebels. That’s right, rebels." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ But who wants to be a rebel if you don't have some fun doing it, eh? And yes, we teenage rebels did indeed have [...]
12/27/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part fifteen, The Clampdown Begins)
Then I kinda went to college And I learned how to drink Then I took all kinds of mind-expanding substances and I... Watched myself think Woo Hoo!! ---------------------------------------------------------- Only it wasn't college, it was the [...]
12/26/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part fourteen, Another One Rides the Bus #6)
“Hey von Ahsen, watch this.” ----------------------------------- These memories often seem like like I'm watching a move. But in this scene I'm not in it... not in a way that can be seen by the audience [...]
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 [...]