Category Archives: youth

An American Romance

October 26, 2013 – 6:30 pm

America was the first nation to fall in love with the car. Henry Ford’s assembly lines produced affordable vehicles for the masses. Gas was cheap and roads were open. The number of automobiles rocketed from hundreds to thousands to millions. The present number of cars in the USA is over 300 million, however more and […]

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Get Da Jag

July 27, 2013 – 6:59 pm

My friend Cynthia from the Bush Tetras was looking for a car in LA. Only losers walk in the City of Angels. A pale-yellow Jaguar E-Class caught her eye and she wondered whether she should purchase it, if only in her mind. “Get da Jag.” I green-lighted the buy. Back in the 1960s two teenage […]

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Sucker Punch

June 1, 2013 – 11:13 am

In the winter of 1967 I stood outside the parking lot of BC High with a Southie girl. The G Clefs were performing soul hits on stage. Debbie and I had danced to their version of MUSTANG SALLY. We were talking about school. Her eyes widened in surprise and I turned to see why. A […]

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Posh 16ish Parties

May 31, 2013 – 7:11 pm

My friend stood on the balcony of his toney London house and looked down on the scrum of teenagers in his garden. The shouting horde smiled with red faces lost to the future in the haze of now. KS’s wife sat in the kitchen with the other moms. Her eyes said to KS, “Your problem.” […]

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Girls Are Trouble

May 27, 2013 – 3:09 pm

13 year-old boys get into trouble. It’s the nature of being a boy, but sometimes they have help and it usually comes from the opposite sex if they’re lucky. Of course my high school sweetheart wanted to save her virginity until marriage. I respected her wishes. Why we broke up I don’t recall, but two […]

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