Back in the 1970s and 80s, half of all Gen-Xers grew up in households headed by single moms. They didn’t call us free-range kids back then, but I suppose that’s exactly what we were. Latchkey kids that roamed the boulevards, back roads and byways of America. We dodged all kinds of dangers, both real and […]
Vintage Christmas Kits and the Fascinating Contribution of Bernhard Ulmann
In these frozen and silent nights Sometimes in a dream you appear… Our hearts were singing It felt like Christmastime Two thousand miles Is very far through the snow I’ll think of you Wherever you go –2,000 Miles, The Pretenders Ten years ago, I purchased some vintage Bucilla Christmas decorations at a local estate sale. The felt ornaments […]
Chloe
…Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid Now there ain’t nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did… –Springsteen and Bobby Jean The best evidence I have these days that there is a God and He loves me came from my recent visit […]
5 Forgotten Protests of Generation X
The Children’s March For Survival, 1972 On March 25, 1972, 30,000 people, most of them African-American school children, gathered on the streets of Washington D.C. to protest welfare reforms. The protest was called the Children’s March for Survival. The kids all carried homemade signs, braved cold temperatures and encircled the White House. They represented the 13th generation of […]
How To Keep Dreaming When Your Hope Is Boiling In The Sun
I was 10-years-old and life unfolded like laundry on a line. We were sheets baked in the wind, our dreams heavy like wet, pilling blankets pinned to a wire. I was pulled taut between two poles, my mother, my father. Fastened in 15 different places — to shame and hope, secrets, and fear. But, also […]
Morning Rain and Mercies
This past year, 2014, has been harder than most. My father died in February and things came undone. But, if it’s possible, 2013 was even worse. What I’ve been through is probably exactly what you’ve been through in your life. The most personal stories are also the most universal. Lies and betrayal. Sickness and death. […]
What Do You Want To Say?
Here is an excerpt from a poem by Natalie Goldberg called I Want To Say. It’s from Top of My Lungs, © The Overlook Press. Before I’m lost to time and the midwest I want to say I was here I loved the half light all winter I want you to know before I leave […]
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