Tag Archives: youth
Ben-Gay tastes like pennies and other memories of Papa Ed Stover
“That little book, which I should not have looked at but am glad I did, revealed to me doddering old Papa, with his suspenders, socks pulled up to his knees, and puffy trucker hat barely resting atop his head, as an actual person, a human being. He thought about people and worried about things.” — […]
On being young and fighting back
This weekend I overheard a conversation between a young man and his father about the teenager’s post-high-school options. I know of the student through the community and I know that he is sweet and bright and got expelled for something minor and seemingly ridiculous, and the conversation was colored by his embarrassment over the ordeal. […]
A chat with a 9-year-old water liberation activist
I met Luke Sekera-Flanders while interviewing his mother Nickie about her involvement with Burma activism a couple of years ago. He was 6 then and I knew him to be wonderfully smart, driven, and very funny. I recently caught a video of Sekera-Flanders at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, where he was testifying against the proposed […]