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I can, with effort, remember most of my ambitions between when I was thirteen in grade 8 in Canada and nineteen in College in Southern California. Perhaps because I never 'did?' drugs, while only occasionally relying on alcohol for world-visions and global-thinking, even now. Albeit, it takes much less booze now to depress my cortical functions to where I'm oblivious to the real-world where I am*.

Mostly then, and still, however, my ambition was and remains to educate myself toward becoming a local* writer/journalist. Eventually making fun of adult aged children who're trying to impress 'the poor' required as audiences for how my class, grade 7s, would live, they say, if 12 year olds were rich and famous. Wealth and emotionally disturbed. Intellectual juveniles crying out for attention from 'the masses' living like we're all in the movies or 'on' TV?

With my wife of the past 33 years I've been a Parent to 4 children who call me dad; or daddy when they want something. Non of them look like me, however, and they're all infinitely smarter than I ever hope to be, again.

When I was a teen I had like-minded friends. All sub-urban brats born into modest circumstances in Calgary Alberta. All with post 'we won the war' Parents striving toward impressing Calgary's poor required as audiences for how my wife, the young adults and teens in my care say they want to live if they win a lottery, get elected into public (funded) office and/or somehow become enabled to play house and play family like The Average American?

Over the years I did get to know, not biblically, most of my children's friends. But, ultimately teens make their own decisions, so I neither lauded or condemned. I merely tried to set an example of Parental propriety as a goof Father-Figure in the image of God quoting Scripture to apply to every conceivable Earthly problem and, and, of course, threatening them with eternal hell (marriage?) if they sinned.

In that they all work for a living now at something useful; cook while at college full time; carpenter wanting to be a master trades-man; food service while at college and, the oldest, teacher with 2 legitimate academic degrees she earned herself, all enabled to undertake their own care, I may not have saved their lives by introducing humor into them, but perhaps enhanced their ability differentiate between 'friends' and parasites?

Or... the title here-> "Testimonies: MySpace and 'my' teen; knowing 'their' friends could save a life" implies ownership

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