Friday, September 6, 2024

You're On Your Own Kid, Part Five: A Hail Mary

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 Principal Galas and Counselor Mrs. Ward gave me the bad news.  They were not permitted access to my transcripts from Our Lady of Peace beca...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

You're On Your on Kid, Part Four: More Hurdles

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January of 1978 started out with drama. It was pouring down rain and close to midnight when Brother Skippy took a drunken walk on the freewa...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

You're On your own, Kid: Part Three, Knocked Down

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Summer, 1975:  I had finished my freshman year at Our Lady of Peace, barely squeaking by, and then spent the next month helping my frantic m...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

You're On Your Own, Kid. Part Two: Fresh start for a Freshman

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During the summer of 1974, we spent alot of time driving 400 miles north to Soledad, California, in order to have family prison visits with ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

You're on your own Kid, Part One: Elementary School

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One of the sad and frustrating aspects of growing up on Eagle Street was that we had a mother who did not value her children's education...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Pandemic Dreams

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 I haven't been inside my Eagle Street home since the house was sold in 1987.  But the memories of that place and the ghosts that still ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Bob's Donuts

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 In my November 1, 2019 post, I introduced everyone to a strange character named Bob who came over one day in 1976 to buy a dog for his room...