Tag: Mr. Rogers

  • What Would Fred Rogers Think?

    Would Mr. Rogers be proud of me?

  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

    I am so grateful for all that Fred Rogers did for me.

  • I’ve Had It

    Ever since I wrote Me Too, I’ve been in a foul mood. Until then, I had never listed all the outrageous things that men have done to me in my lifetime. I’d never looked at them in one big, steaming pile. Now I don’t think I’ll ever be able to avert my eyes again. And…

  • I Was a Book-Nosed Girl

    To say I had a dysfunctional childhood would be putting it mildly. Purely to save myself, I spent a great deal of time dissociating from my daily reality. In fact, I really can’t recall much from ages 11 through 13. I can say that I watched Mr. Rogers until an embarrassing age. He was the…

  • Fred Rogers Was My Father

    On the last day of 2012, I have a confession to make. I watched Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood to an embarrassingly old age. It was my dirty little secret. I told no one. It was something for just the two of us. Every day I’d tune in to the only father figure I had. He would…