Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Rice Elementary School’

How social media benefits us

May 12, 2015

I have my problems with social media. A lot of completely insane people contact me and either make threats or waste my time. Today a man gave me a tremendous gift. He allowed me to see a face I’ve wondered about for forty years. I can’t begin to thank this man. When I was ten…

 

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Remembering a protector

May 13, 2014

Currently I’m doing research for my next novel, constructing a life that never was. Or may have been. Who knows? Part of the novel I’m going to write takes place in Tyler, Texas, where I lived from 1972 to 1975. Even so, everything in the book is false. I made it all up. It’s just…

 

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The arrival of the man intended

May 5, 2014

Mom always told me that I was the happiest baby and toddler she’d ever seen. To be frank, I have no memory of being happy. Today, however, I announce the arrival of the man intended. He showed up after fifty-one years. You might find it hard to accept why I’m now truly, permanently happy; the…

 

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I’ll take microbullying any day

December 18, 2013

I just read a blog post titled “Micro-aggression: It’s bullying,” on the Website of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AADP). The post authors are Youth Transitions Fellow Leah Katz-Hernandez and Megan Erasmus, BA in Psychology 2010 and MA in Mental Health 2012. They list several types of micro-aggression, which they spell “microaggression” as…

 

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