“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” –Elliott Erwitt, The Joy of Photographing People November 23, 1976 was a Tuesday. Thanksgiving was just two days away, and the kids at an elementary school outside of Boston gathered in the school cafeteria for a paper-plate Thanksgiving […]
Keeping Watch
Why did my mom have to die? That’s a question a kid would ask, not a 52-year-old woman. I’m supposed to be too old to be this grief-stricken but, too bad. My mother died in 2017. I’m never, ever going to get over it. I’m just going to get on with it. Get on with […]
Pics of 1970s Kids with Magic Mountain’s Heavily Sedated Lion
As if the 1970s weren’t dangerous enough for kids, Magic Mountain let children pet and sit atop a heavily sedated lion inside their “Enchanted Cottage” attraction. Named Major, the lion once starred with Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan. Magic Mountain opened in Valencia, California (now Santa Clarita) in 1971. I was almost four-years-old and living in […]