author Tom Leveen https://tomleveen.com/ stories for Gen X teens Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:41:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/tomleveen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-tom-headshot-512-x-512-px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 author Tom Leveen https://tomleveen.com/ 32 32 58747560 Least Likely to Cry After A Performance https://tomleveen.com/least-likely-to-cry-after-a-performance/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:41:44 +0000 https://tomleveen.com/?p=6411 Camelback High School Masque & Gavel had an end-of-year tradition called “The Most and Least Awards.” Just like you’d imagine: Most Likely to Succeed, Least Likely to Miss a Cue, or whatever. Stuff like that. As secretary my junior year, one of my jobs was to print up the awards on my dot-matrix printer. Because […]

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]]> 6411 My Best Friend Betrayed Me When I Was 16! https://tomleveen.com/my-best-friend-betrayed-me-when-i-was-16/ Fri, 29 May 2026 13:02:35 +0000 https://tomleveen.com/?p=6400 It all started when Matt betrayed us all. At 16, that’s how it felt. See, Matt was an artist. In practical terms back in 1990, he was The Artist, as in, the artist of our group. I still have drawings of his that he did back then, and for a 16-year-old kid, yeah, he had […]

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]]> 6400 Rewinding the ’90s: Take Me Down To the Paradise City https://tomleveen.com/rewinding-the-90s-take-me-down-to-the-paradise-city/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:30:45 +0000 https://tomleveen.com/?p=6145 Paradise City, the Radio, and a Moment of Time Travel So my car has not been doing well the last two or three weeks. She’s been in the shop twice for very expensive repairs. I’m driving a 2004, and it’s not a Honda, and it’s not a Toyota. So this car has lived well beyond […]

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