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BABY LOVE: HOW TO SURVIVE THE OUTCOME WITH A SONG

July 15, 2021 by

Baby love isn’t about babies, it’s about the first time we feel something about another person. What was ‘that something?’ Baby love, because from a distance, a fourteen year old or fifteen year old is a baby. Big, but still a baby fifty years later. Maybe fifty-one. Was it a special teacher that kindled those […]

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OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER? A FAMILY TIMELINE

February 22, 2021 by

Old enough didn’t matter when I bought a switchblade knife in Mexico. I was a twelve year old with my parents on a family car trip. After driving across Texas we stopped in El Paso after the Carlsbad Caves, then a day trip across the border to Juárez. After proudly showing my mom my new […]

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AGE IS JUST A NUMBER UNTIL YOU SHOW YOUR AGE

January 23, 2017 by

  Your age is no secret, except to you.   People who say age is just a number do it for a reason: they are old, not your youthful age. They make it worse when they say hair dye doesn’t change how others see them, but how they see themselves. Old guy selfie problem? If […]

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THE CARE AGE SANDWICH GENERATION

August 4, 2016 by

If elderly people depend on you, you’re in the Care Age. Ages come in different names defined by the dominant materials like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Epochs and eras all have names. If you find artifacts made in America before the explorers got here, they’re called Pre-contact, as if everything after early […]

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