For my second thread blog thread, I’m going to post material from a manuscript titled Life in the Breakdown Lane. In this country, children’s services agencies and juvenile courts intersect at a place I call the breakdown lane. Telling the story of this place seems as … [Read more...] about Life in the Breakdown Lane
Cleveland Heights Chronicles – Part 2
Our arrival in Cleveland Heights at 3157 Kensington Road took place in the summer of 1969. We moved from the Park Lane Villa in University Circle, where we’d been for three years. The Park Lane was a wonderful old building, recently remodeled, and we had an apartment on the 5th … [Read more...] about Cleveland Heights Chronicles – Part 2
Cleveland Heights Chronicles – Part 1
Note: This overview is the first chapter of my reflections on 45 years in Cleveland Heights. I’ve lived in Cleveland Heights for forty-five years. My husband and I moved into the upstairs of a double on Kensington in the summer of 1969, the summer that the U.S. put a man on … [Read more...] about Cleveland Heights Chronicles – Part 1