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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 [...]
12/12/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part six, In the Not-so-Mean Time)
Whatever you practice, you get good at... Even if it's just complaining. ----- Just one of the gazillion quotes about practice ------------------------------------------ Today I'm reminding myself to practice, remembering the joy. And there was a [...]
12/11/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part five, New Kinds of Violence)
“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” ― Aisha Mirza -------------------------------------------------------- As I said before, it wasn't so much [...]
12/10/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part four, Still the Good Boy)
I always listened to my Mother I was afraid of my Dad I respected all my teachers I sat in front of the class --------------------------------------- No... my parents were far from perfect, and despite my [...]