According to Wikipedia, historians use a period of between 22 and 33 years' duration to define a generation.  Let’s use the midpoint of 55 years for two generations.  That takes us back to 1965.  That year in particular is memorable to me since Dad decided that we needed to leave Baltimore and move to Southern California.  He rented a 6 foot by 8 foot U-Haul trailer; loaded my parents’ bedroom furniture and some clothing for all of us and one item of small size that was personal.  That was kind of tough for a family with six kids.  I lament the boxes of baseball and football cards I threw away, considering their value today.  I kept my stamp collection in a book that my grandmother from Lithuania gave me three years earlier. We were excited about living 20 miles from the popular upcoming group, The Beach Boys, seeing nightly fireworks at Disneyland, and being able to bike to the beach if we had a bicycle.  We were surrounded...(Read Full Article)