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Mike's Musings: Teenagers and the Coronavirus

“One of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never accurately remember.” - Una LaMarche Unfortunately, I do remember my teenage experience…

“One of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never accurately remember.” – Una LaMarche

Unfortunately, I do remember my teenage experience and it was less than ideal. So, over the last four years, I‘ve spoken to the 9th grade students at my local high school about several of the lessons I wish I had learned, if I had been willing, when I was their age (about 20,000 days ago). This time, because of remote corona-learning, I made a video of my presentation. Well, it actually took several takes until I finally got it right! Feel free to share it with the teenagers (and parents) in your life. 

Thanks for viewing and stay safe out there!

Other titles by Mike during Covid-19:

Isaac Asimov and the Coronavirus

Bobby McFerrin & the Coronavirus

Gilda Radner and the Coronavirus

Henrik Ibsen & the Coronavirus

A Remarkable Mender & the Coronavirus

Julie Andrews and the Coronavirus

Most Lucky One & the Coronavirus

Lily Tomlin & the Coronavirus

Herbie Hancock & the Coronavirus

Leo Tolstoy & the Coronavirus

Most Beautiful One & the Coronavirus

Grandma Moses & the Coronavirus

Leonardo da Vinci & the Coronavirus

Lean on Bill Withers and Defeat the Coronavirus

Gandhi, King, Ikeda & the Coronavirus

Tagore and the Coronavirus

Annie Leibovitz and the Coronavirus

Ansel Adams and the Coronavirus

Louise Penny and the Coronavirus

Harry Manx and the Coronavirus

Keb’ Mo’ and the Coronavirus

Davy Jones and the Coronavirus

Prince Hamlet and the Coronavirus

Helen Keller and the Coronavirus

Pema Chodron and the Coronavirus


Mike playing harmonica with the Hep Replacements

ABOUT MIKE LISAGOR – Mike Lisagor plays harmonica and sings in Good Karma Blues. He has written hundreds of magazine articles and blogs on a variety of business and Buddhist related topics. He is the author of “Romancing the Buddha,” which he adapted into a successful one-man show that he performed at Bainbridge Performing Arts and in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. His nature photographs have appeared in the Boston Globe, Bainbridge Island Magazine, Living Buddhism as well as in several local galleries. His latest graphic art project, “Reimagined Nature”, is in the lobby of New Motion Physical Therapy.