Posted in seeker, tagged A Boy in Dog Land, autobiography, dog land, Dogland, memoir on March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Introduction
When I was a boy in the early 1960s, I lived in Florida at a tourist attraction called Dog Land. Years later, I wrote a novel called Dogland based on my life there. This memoir is effectively an abridged version of that novel. The fiction has been removed in the hope that the truth will [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, wealth on August 18, 2007 | 15 Comments »
I’ll be taking a break from LJ soon, so I think I’ll try to finish my little class bio. This isn’t a proper essay, but if I try to make it one someday, I need to add things that commenters reminded me of:
Like, we only had powdered milk to drink during the Gainesville years. One [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, wealth on August 17, 2007 | 24 Comments »
I came across two bizarre claims about me, one saying that I know nothing about being poor, one saying that I said things I never said on Compuserve or GEnie. I think these are simply the grumblings of middle class and upper class people who don’t like to think about their privilege.
While I believe that [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, wealth on June 29, 2007 | 41 Comments »
A while back, the New York Times did a series on class that included this interactive chart that lets you plug in four factors (occupation, education, income, and wealth) to see your class in the USA.
Now, class really is much simpler than capitalists like to think. Ultimately, it’s just about the wealth. The [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, leveler, liberal, my tribe on May 26, 2007 | 72 Comments »
I was a liberal. Explaining my history with liberal politics requires explaining my family’s history.
Grandpa Ross, Dad’s father, had a small farm in northern Minnesota. He was a member of the Farmer-Labor Party, a progressive party that actually elected a governor. But the Farmer-Labor Party was eventually contaminated by wealth and merged with the Democratic [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography on March 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Two finds at Trader Joe’s: Corn Meal Pizza Crusts and Ginger Spread. Uh, not together. But you know, that’d probably be good, too.
Tucson has a new Philippine restaurant: Pinoy Fast Food at 7159 E Broadway. The garlic rice is amazing; must take Steve Brust the next time he’s in town. Sticky rice desserts are equally [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, vegetarianism on January 1, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Mom just emailed me with food questions, so, in case anyone else was wondering:
Emma made the African peanut soup from a recipe that looks like the one here.
Mock duck is made from wheat gluten (seitan) and textured like duck. We made seitan once; my memory is that was a bit of work. We usually buy [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, wealth on May 8, 2006 | 10 Comments »
If you want to think I’m from the U.S.’s lower class, use these facts:
Until I was eleven, I shared a bedroom with my brother and sister. Mike and I had a double bed; Liz had a single.
Our clothes usually came from Goodwill, the Salvation Army, or K-Mart. I was the oldest, so I got new [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, colonoscopy on January 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I don’t want to put anyone on the spot by mentioning that she just came through her colonoscopy with the prize-winning flag of “10 years until the next one.” But I did want to say that I now know three extremely useful things for others who are facing a colonoscopy.
1. Check the flavor of the [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, colonoscopy on January 19, 2006 | 16 Comments »
Just heard from the doc. The polyp was benign. No need for another colonoscopy for five to ten years.
When I was a kid, I thought that in the 21st century, I would have a jetpack. Time travellers, please do not go back and tell that kid he’ll get a colonoscopy instead.
