A Story of Self Preservation         “Quitting Smoking is easy,” said Mark Twain. “I’ve done it hundreds of times.” A 1964 U.S. Surgeon...

What Happened Situations come up that no one likes to talk about, even when talk is necessary. This discussion delves into one of those...

A youth movement that changed the world – for a while Background Growing up in the 1960s, the hippy era felt like it would last forever. As the first new cultural development in the lives of baby boomers, they had no experience to draw on to suggest what might happen next, if there was a next. Or, now that life changed, did the future continue to be flamboyant clothes, communes, protest songs, flower power, foreign war and rock and roll? While their elders nursed memories of

Memories - Happy Ones – How Things Have Changed Early Days While the rest of the family worked or went to class, mom and I stayed home. I...