Le, over at Third on the Right has initiated a little blog community project, Flashback Friday Link Up Lovey. Check it out, and come up with your own Flashdance, I mean flashback. Haha! Snowball Dance at Caney Valley High, Southeast Kansas I have so many great memories from growing up in the 1980s, and the […]
Locked In The Bathroom: A Brief Latchkey Memoir
It’s estimated that more than 40 percent of Generation Xers (those born between 1961 and 1981, according to Neil Howe and William Strauss, the esteemed authors of Generations), were latchkey kids. I came across the blog of a Baby Boomer the other day, Finding Pam. The woman is 58, but her mother worked, and like […]
“This is our revolution: Integrity”
Chris from Georgia writes: So here we are, quiet, sneaking our revolution past you, in the privacy of our own homes. Our hard lives and our personal struggles have created a very tough generation. We are using this toughness to insulate our children from the complex world you created. Our revolution started late, so we […]
My Father’s Shoeshine Kit
My father’s shoeshine kit hearkens back to Sunday mornings when I was a child. He sat on the edge of the bed, his stocky frame sinking the mattress to the floor, and propping one foot at a time on the cedar valet, he polished his shoes, back and forth and back and forth. Sometimes, if […]
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