by Kevin Banet | Aug 29, 2025 | 60's Boy, Family, Generations, History, Reminisce, Senior stories
Resilience in the Face of Life’s Difficulties The other day while scrolling online, I stumbled across a meme that stopped me in my tracks. It was macabre in design — a grinning skull, dark shadows around it — with the words: “Death smiles at everyone. Only the veteran...
by Kevin Banet | Aug 29, 2025 | 60's Boy, Reminisce
How the Renewal Shaped My Catholic Life There was a song I used to sing with others when I was living at home as a young adult. I can remember the refrain vividly, “Come go with me to that land…” That land, of course, was heaven. And the irony was always there,...
by Kevin Banet | Aug 22, 2025 | 60's Boy, Family, Generations, Reminisce
The Pull of Family Togetherness My recent article on family togetherness in an Appalachian family prompted me to see how similar my own family was years ago. In eastern Kentucky, the Sutherlands — a family of eight adults and their children — pulled together when...
by Kevin Banet | Oct 5, 2023 | 60's Boy, History, nursing homes
Shrapnel in his chest The large man lay in his nursing home bed while I moved him about. As an orderly, I was hired because the home needed a man to work with the heavier patients. “I fought in the Battle of the Marne,” the man said. “I’ve still got shrapnel in my...
by Kevin Banet | Oct 4, 2023 | 60's Boy, Senior stories
Grandpa can’t mow As a child I remember that every Sunday afternoon my mom, dad and my siblings would drive to our grandparents’ house a few miles away. Dad sometimes mowed the lawn for his parents with their hand-operated mower. We kids might be given a Coke...
