by admin | Sep 2, 2011 | Growing Up
I really don’t see how parents are able to raise their children these days. Today’s psychologists and so-called child raising experts admonish parents who want to beat the living daylights out of their children. And children readily dial 911 at even a...
by admin | Aug 10, 2011 | Growing Up
Next month, I return to the homeland from whence I came. After a five year absence, I am returning to Seattle once more, not to bless it with my presence, but to go to the Fair. Oh, sure, I have told my friends that I can’t wait to see them. That is most...
by admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Growing Up
Growing up on NE 28th Street, there weren’t any kids my age. I had been caught in the bottoming out of the Baby Boom generation… I was the youngest kid on the block outside of Michael Hanshew, a late addition to a Catholic family of nothing but girls. He...
by admin | Jun 14, 2011 | Growing Up
When I was in my teens, my brother Jon decided to take up the sport of skydiving. I must have been 12 at the time and he would take me with him out the parachute center out in Issaquah, which today is a shopping mall. For a 12 year old, this was quite the adventure....
by admin | Mar 28, 2011 | Growing Up
As I began to delve into my childhood with my last post about being homeless in my own home as the last born and living on the couch, it dawned on me that life with three older brothers was rarely ever a picnic. Being the youngest offers no advantages save one: If...
by admin | Mar 24, 2011 | Growing Up
Growing up we were like most Baby Boom families. We didn’t live in a large house. Though it had four bedrooms, they were very small by today’s standards. And with mom and dad in one bedroom, that left three bedrooms for four boys. Well, you know who the...
by admin | Mar 23, 2011 | Growing Up
When I was in first grade, I really liked Mrs. Hanks. I was attending Kennydale Elementary School and she was my first real school teacher. Of course, I had attended kindergarten, but it wasn’t like real school because all we seemed to do all day was finger...
