Teens and Faith
What Should Today’s Teens Know about Love?
While searching for information on a specific topic, I tripped on a link somewhere in the Google outfield. Down that rabbit hole I fell, coming to rest at the end of a list of thirty comments on the off-topic blog post I’d just read. I longed to reach out to the young author, her like-minded […]
What’d a Fifties Thanksgiving Look Like?
Kids today can’t imagine life without a microwave, instant mashed potatoes and packets of turkey dressing. It’s possible to purchase a fully-cooked turkey from the store and just reheat. If going the cook-it-yourself route today, most turkeys are sealed in a bag so the cook need not pull the turkey out to baste the bird. […]
“Hey, Girlfriend, It’s Okay to Be Straight!”
With the media’s spotlight focused on the adolescents of the LGBT community, the insecure straight teen can feel left out—again “I’m thirteen. I like Susan a lot. We’ve been best buds since first grade, but—not like that. What’s wrong with me?” To all of you teens and young adults, I say, “Hey, girlfriend, it’s okay […]
Temptation Challenge
Search for any advertizing team’s prime target avatar, and you’ll see my smiling face; I’m an advertisers’ dream. Pitch your wares often enough, and even the things I know aren’t a good idea, may move me to the buy button. Case in point: I’m very aware that eating pork-anything in fast-food restaurants disturbs my digestive […]
Four Questions For Career Choice Or Change
Technology makes adults obsolete. Anything the teenager wants to know can just be Googled. Communication with the older generation is totally unnecessary. While it sometimes might seem as though our adolescents have adopted that stand, acquiring a load of information isn’t always the only thing needed to make a decision. Often, an injection of experience […]