Tag: Mennonite
Boy, Did I Love Lucy: A Mini-Memoir
If a genie had appeared to me when I was ten and offered me anything my heart desired, the answer would have poured out of me.
Some girls want ponies. Some want Barbies. Some are generous enough to think of others first, asking for world peace or food for the hungry. Others go straight for a [...]
Posted: July 19th, 2009 under Personal Reflections.
Tags: I Love Lucy, Mennonite, mini-memoir, television
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My First Rock Concert: A Mini-Memoir
Rock music is like a foreign language to me even though I graduated from high school in 1966 and college in 1970.
Like many explanations of my most anomalous behaviors, this one goes back to being Mennonite. And a little geeky (meaning bookish–not a math whiz!) on top of that.
I like to joke that I sang [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2009 under Personal Reflections.
Tags: Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, July 4, Mennonite, mini-memoir, rock music, Willie Nelson, Woodstock
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An Op Ed–Memoir Style–About Socialism
I was hoping that Newsweek would want to take this article for “My Turn,” but since the election is tomorrow and the time will have passed for the relevance of this essay, I offer it here to you. What good is a blog if you can’t self-publish?
I love when old categories are rearranged as a [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Personal Reflections.
Tags: family values, love, Mennonite, mini-memoir, socialism
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