The latest chapter from my autobiographical novel, "Clubius Besieged" about my junior high years 1966-1969. Trying to recreate zeitgeist and conflicting thoughts and feelings I had at my first dance in 7th grade when I somehow managed to ask a girl to dance. www.leftyparent.com/blog/2025/11...

Latest chapter of my autobiographical novel, "Clubius Besieged", about my junior high years in the later 1960s. It starts more of a narrative thread around Math Club and connecting with my female classmate that lives across the street. www.leftyparent.com/blog/2025/10...

2nd chapter of my latest "memoir", about my junior high years back in the 1960s, chronicling a weekend, and my split life with divorced parents, watching both my mom and dad wrestle with psychological trauma in their own ways, as I wrestle with mine.

www.leftyparent.com/blog/2025/09...

The final chapter of my "memoir" of my elementary school years growing up in the college town of Ann Arbor Michigan in the 1960s. My old friend Molly and I reminisce about the past and contemplate an uncertain future.

www.leftyparent.com/blog/2025/07...

With the culmination of six years of elementary school, and the prospect of going to junior high, I wrestle with what it takes to feel like a big kid if I'm going to go to a big kid school, including the minefield of boyfriend girlfriend stuff, per the Beatles. www.leftyparent.com/blog/2025/05...

Finally posted latest chapter of "Clubius Contained", my autobiographical novel of my elementary school years from age 5 to 11. It's August 1966 and my mom, brother and I are again in Cape Cod for a very much needed vacation from day to day life.

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Latest chapter of my "memoir" of my elementary school years. August 1966, me age 11 in last gasps of any semblance of "childhood", still not officially a teen. We embark on the long drive again to "the Cape", this time post divorce without our dad.

www.leftyparent.com/blog/2025/03...

Latest chapter of my "memoir" of growing up in 1960s in Ann Arbor Michigan. It's summertime, when my time's my own, and besides my "regular" friends, who were in my sixth grade class at school, I have my "secret" friends that I play Avalon Hill wargames with.

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Latest chapter of my "memoir" about growing up in Ann Arbor MI in early 1960s. I've finished 6th grade and am in the middle of my beloved summer months. I get a big clutch hit our Little League game, but then our catcher to does something bad to seal the win.

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Historian Heather Cox Richardson does a great weekly pep talk about her take on everything going on including pretty good advice about how to continue the fight for democracy. She's calm, measured and thoughtful and it may be just the thing to settle you a bit...
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Latest chapter of my "memoir" about my elementary school years growing up in Ann Arbor MI. The last day of school, the end of my years in elementary school, after a difficult year of my parents' divorce. But now it's my favorite time of year, summer break.

www.leftyparent.com/blog/2025/01...

I continue to read, record, edit & post as a podcast chapters of my autobiographical novel of growing up ages 3 to 5 in Ann Arbor in late 1950s. If you like listening to audio books, you might enjoy this one, where I do my best to bring my story to life with my voice.

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Latest chapter of my "memoir" about my elementary school years in the 1960s. With us kids it's all about secret agents, and the big event was the new James Bond movie, "Thunderball", and I wrestle with the discomforting sexual politics between men and women.

www.leftyparent.com/blog/2024/12...

Latest chapter of my "memoir" about growing up in Ann Arbor in 1960s. Beginning of sixth grade culminating with my mom confronting my dad on an affair he is having with another woman. www.leftyparent.com/blog/2024/10...

Chapter 33 of my "memoir", Clubius Contained about my elementary school years in the early 1960s. Following up on the last chapter, final events leading to my mom and dad getting divorced... www.leftyparent.com/blog/2024/10...

The latest chapter of my "memoir" about my youth It's January 1966, two months after our mom and dad divorced, and my brother and I find solace in our new kitten, new comedy albums and our table-top hockey game, and the pretend world we create around it. www.leftyparent.com/blog/2024/11...