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There is a meme going around social media these days, shared chiefly among late Boomers and Gen Xers, featuring the image above, and bearing the legend: DON’T TELL ME ABOUT …
From Spiked Beer to Champagne
Everything in this story is true. The turmoil of my childhood home life is well documented elsewhere on this site, and readers of my other memoir chapters have good reason …
Vacation! All I Ever Wanted
Everything in this story really happened. Names and minor identifying factors have been changed for the usual reasons. “Hey, man,” said Sid Garrison, his thin face breaking into a wide …
Acid Test ’89
This really happened. Names, details of some events and some identifying factors have been changed for the usual reasons. Despite my dismal grades and worse attitude, I was allowed in …
The Loud Sucking of Adulthood
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White Knuckle Express
Burt Freeman Bacharach, a towering figure of American song, has passed at the age of 94. What can be said of the man that hasn’t already been codified in legend …
Bacharach to Basics
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Ready for the ’80s
Americans now in their 50s grew up in a time of radical innovation at the intersection of public education and mass media. In the late 1960s, citizen groups such as …
Knowledge is Power!
Well, another year is just about in the can, and as usual, there is a long list of talented folks who have left us over the past twelve months. For …
In Memoriam 2022
In modern-day America, the hallmarks of middle age include, among many other signifiers, opening your mailbox to find that first mailer from AARP, noticing antique tags on cars that were …
Museum Pieces