Originally from June 14, 2012:
Any of you old kids remember a show called Big Blue Marble? Maybe that's where I got the idea to learn to say a little something in every language I could, and took an interest in what kids around the world were doing. I even had a penpal when I was 5. Her name is Lita, from Cypress, CA, and we are friends on facebook today! Hooray for the 1970s and all the conscious programming they had for kids. Thank God I grew up before the '80s and the dumbing down and entitlement that ensued.
