By today's standards, childcare in the 70s and 80s would have gotten our parents arrested. I watch a lot of "body cam" police videos on YouTube (shut up it's fascinating) and I've seen a fair number of parents put in handcuffs for child abandonment. This one woman went to visit another apartment in the same apartment complex while her 13 year old was in charge of the 9 year old. They were both asleep. Ummmm...yeah. (Read More On Blog)

#generationX #latchkeykids

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This is from Friday.
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Well. The Olympics are on TV again. It's Day One. That means it's the 14th anniversary of my wholly unexpected, life-altering and remarkably inconvenient psychotic break.

That fraught, violent week-long episode opened a chapter in my life that is still playing out in many ways. At the time I wrote in an essay called Behind Three Doors (Read more on blog):

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So get this. Last night I wanted to look up the GoFundMe that got set up for Joe and me when we got hit with calamity in August 2023, so I Googled for it. Imagine my surprise when I found us on a site listing "Couples 'Dying Suddenly.'" What the...(Read More on blog)

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Hey guys! I've been on Friendica for less than two hours. Even so, I'd like to post about my mom. My mom has a new website to promote her oil and watercolor paintings. I love her work! She is so talented. JoAnna Lombardi is her name. She should be participating in a show soon, probably NYC.

This link goes to my blog, where I wrote more about my mom, and which includes her site link.

The Stevie Wonder watercolor is in a private collection. In my personal collection I have Boy George, Billie Holiday, Velma Middleton, and a few more of non-famous people.

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