Rocking Tributes
Brought to you by Blair Sorrel
author of A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving
Rocking Tributes lets you ride your reminiscence bump.
That’s when you became you. Experiencing your flagship firsts and the music you associate with them. High hopes as a freshman in college, exhilaration on a trip abroad, bittersweet pangs of searing infatuation, yawning sleeplessness in the big city, jitters at starting an entry level job, or even the despair of a poignant breakup. We let you fill in the blanks with those tunes/vignettes and create a unique autobiographical template – all for a song!
What you recall from your teens to early twenties is the most memorable.
“Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can’t tell people. And it will answer you with things people can’t tell you.”
― Paul McCartney
About Blair
If there’s an afterlife, how ‘bout a better deal?
Blair Sorrel is an open book and a cautionary tale. In spite of her disability, she managed stints as Free Time’s “Dollarwise Dilettante” columnist, Together Dating Service’s matchmaker, and New York Blood Services’ apheresis recruiter.
Blair also worked as the founder of Street Zaps, a stray voltage clearinghouse that the National Electric Code showcased sporadically, Con Edison and the Electric Power and Research Institute respected, Channel 11/WPIX featured, and that former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman made an official public service.
She was the first community representative that Con Edison ever invited to their annual Jodie S. Lane Stray Voltage Detection, Mitigation, and Prevention National Conference starting in 2008.
It is said there are born writers. Wet behind the ears left the womb with a greeting card in one diminutive paw and a ballpoint pen in the other, now the big baby strives to enlarge her readership. A scribbler with arrested development and decidedly anti-social, Blair would nonetheless give you the shirt off her back were she not so modest. Her Ladyship remains a true altruist and a lifelong animal lover.
About the Book
WHEN STRIVERS SPAWN SLACKERS.
Strange as it may seem, some status-seeking parents actually sabotage their children’s chance of success.
Early disparagement imprints lifelong low self-esteem, a social phobia impairing concentration along with a stultifying dread of authority figures. An overall shoddy rearing-style that ensures educational and professional disappointment nowhere near approximating those lofty aspirations. Genius or genes doesn’t factor so much as the fundamental influence of competent, caring guardians.
A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving is a breakthrough female narrative instilling greater understanding and possible prevention of this cryptic condition. The memoir is set mostly in the 60s, the heyday of classic rock; icons appear as bit players providing the protagonist’s saving grace. Share this Seven Sister’s struggle through humor, hope, and all that stellar music, her “special friend.” Read on and perhaps you will also emerge a better person.