Author: GeneL

• Forever in Blue Jeans

  Jan 5

  Forever in Blue Jeans by Gene Lysick is a memoir-style reflection on aging, time, and the way objects hold memory.… more ›

• Elder

  Aug 5

  It was a long stretch, maybe too long, when his instructor said it was time.  “Time for what?” he asked. … more ›

• Rambler

  Jul 8

  Every year my dad took me and my mother on our traditional summer vacation. This year would be different. We… more ›

• 1965

  Jun 1

  It was the first day of the 7th grade in 1965 and everything was amplified. The high school held two… more ›

• Letting Go

  Apr 22

  How would you like to give up your son for someone else to raise for 26 months? Especially during his… more ›

• Basement

  Dec 2

  I grew up in the late fifties in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, a small town on the Ohio River outside Pittsburgh. Ambridge… more ›