Connecting to teenagers

My friend Katia offers another post about her adventures touring and promoting her book Crashing America. In her latest adventure she goes to SF's School of the Arts, reads her book and does a Q and A.

In this and a previous post Katia comments on connecting to young people over her book's protagonist, a 17-year-old dyke street punk, and about how meaningful it is to her to make these connections to teenagers who, in some ways, resemble her character. This is a meaningful and usually emotional process, this way of actually connecting to teenagers when they and you (the adult) both drop your guard and open up. As a former high school teacher, I know how moving this can be. it's great to have Katia reminding me of it.