This will be the first year in the history of my being a parent that I won’t be with my children on Thanksgiving day so we have decided to our meal today. It was the basic turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie (blech. I don’t eat it, but the children do – [...]
When the first AIDS quilt was created in 1987 it took just a little time to reach me where I lived in Chicago. It was a time when sex, as a typical teenage subject, was not at all taboo. But at the time I recall my friends and I wanting to ignore what was going [...]
Let’s start with the facts: It was a school day. I was in my sophomore year. In general, life was pretty difficult. That’s everyone in high school, though. Right? Thinking back on it now I couldn’t possibly tell you what class I was in at the time. I couldn’t tell you what I was wearing [...]
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