Five Boyhoods, published in 1962, is five short memoirs written by men who grew up in sequential decades starting in the 1880s and ending in the 1940s with John Updike. The short memoirs give fascinating insights to what it was like to grow up a boy in America a century ago. The first one revealsContinue reading “Turn of the century memoirs, “Five Boyhoods””
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Just Like My Mother, After All.
Picture it: Roanoke Memorial Hospital. May 9th 1981. It’s a Tuesday morning in the Southwestern Virginia valley town. A 19 year old holds her baby girl for the first time, after three days of agonizing, exhausting, medically hindered and then “vacuum-assisted” delivery of the 9 pound, 15 ounce bundle. A ray of sunlight falls onContinue reading “Just Like My Mother, After All.”
Adventures of an Earthborn Alien 