These are the days To hold on to But we won’t Although we’ll want to… Billy Joel, This Is The Time, 1986 I love homecoming games! I remember the very first one I attended in 1976. I was in 4th grade and we were living in Kermit, Texas, home of the Yellow Jackets! It was […]
Life on Bluefish Court, 1970s Kids
I have been blogging for more than 20 years. I started off journaling on the Open Diary, and later moved to Blogspot and then WordPress. Even before platforms like the Open Diary made online publishing easy, I wrote a song-of-the-week essay and sent it to all my friends via email. (Feedback was sparse. Ha!) This […]
Filmmaker Looking for Teens in 1989 Film Featuring Children of Vietnam Vets
In 1989 filmmaker David Hoffman recorded a therapy session for Gen-Xers who shared stories about growing up with fathers who were Vietnam War veterans. The teenagers, all of whom appear to have been born in the late 1960s, were filmed at a church in St. Louis, Missouri. “I felt for these kids and for the […]