Category Archives: Cultural Leitmotifs

The Sea of Possibilities

For most socially challenged kids, high school becomes the final torment — a kind of ninth circle — at the end of an already unpleasant progression of mismatched interactions, rejections and instances of outright abuse. But somehow I really lucked … Continue reading

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Rant: A Wolf In Bunny’s Clothing

How is it that grown-ups so often invent such horrible distortions of what children will find appealing? Is it that we really can’t remember what it was like to be three years old? Is it our need to impose on … Continue reading

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