Growing Bolder Community

Thomas Wolfe wrote "You Can't Go Home Again". On June 4th I challenged that sentiment by attending my 45th high school reunion. The Miami Palmetto High School class of 1965 was once again gathering to remember the days when we were blue and white panthers. I honestly thought I would never ever want to see that group again. High school had been a challenge for the young girl I was back then. Deedra...

When we last visited my life, I was growing up on Catalina Island, where I graduated from High School in 1942 from Avalon High School. There where 13 of us in my class. I was 18 years old at that time and with the U.S. in war with Germany, I was required to register for the draft. I spent the summer of '42 on the Island and not too long after that, my number came up in the draft. I was sent...

Because Marilyn has always believed in equal opportunity, and because she was in the office broom closet with her male boss a couple of days ago, today she invited her male assistant, Joey, to join her after work for a little “office talk” concerning his possible future advancement with the company. Joey is a go-getter and doesn’t appear to let high scruples get in his way; a trait that she...

My "caboose baby" is graduating from high school tonight. I'm nowhere near ready. I still need to iron his graduation gown, prepare dinner, take a shower, do my hair. But even if all that were done by magic wand...I still wouldn't be ready. I don't think I ever will be. Twenty seven years of daily hands-on mothering is drawing to a close, with the last stop on the train being dropping my...