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Author Archives: Ken Dowell
Growing Up in the 50’s: Religion
The 50’s are a decade that was all about conformity. And conformity is all about appearances. Nothing symbolized that better that my family’s attitude toward and participation in religion. We were a devout, Christian, church member, believer sort of family. … Continue reading
Vote for the Ugliest Pirate Giveaway T-Shirt
I attend a fair amount of sporting events. Thus from time to time I am handed a t-shirt as I walk through the turnstile. This year I got two especially ugly ones. Both came from teams that use the name … Continue reading
Growing Up in the 50’s: A Decade of DIY
A few years ago I read Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Mathew B. Crawford. The premise of the book is that modern man experiences a level of alienation because he is disconnected from his environment. He doesn’t know how anything … Continue reading
How Greed Stunts the Growth of Our Economy
We are all pretty familiar with the causes of the 2008 recession. In a word, it was greed, as evidenced by America’s bankers and brokers. What we saw from Wall Street was a willingness to do what they knew was … Continue reading
Growing Up in the 50’s: Tricky Dick on Main Street
It’s 1956. I’m in first grade at Washington Park Elementary School in Totowa, N.J. It must be in the fall, shortly before the presidential election that year, and one day my whole class was lined up and marched in formation … Continue reading
Pictures From My Walls
My collection of art by Tom Greaves: My iPad photos don’t do justice to the texture of these pieces. To see more check out Tom’s site.
Growing Up in the 50’s: Bomb Scare!
Like most suburban houses built in the 50’s, ours had a stairway to the basement in the center of the house. Under the stairway was an empty space with progressively lower head room, since the ceiling was in fact the … Continue reading
Work and the Economy in the 2010’s: A Novelist’s Perspective
Some of the best insight I’ve read about the impact of current U.S. economic trends on individuals is in the last two Dave Eggers Novels, A Hologram for the King and The Circle. A Hologram deals with outsourcing, employment and … Continue reading
Growing Up in the 50’s: Baseball
For an American boy growing up in the 50’s there was one sport, baseball. For a substantial part of my childhood I played baseball every day. Day after day, I would eat breakfast, pick up my glove and head out … Continue reading
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