Category: Reminiscing
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Still the Land of the Free
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday is the 4th of July, 2023. I’m rerunning the post I wrote a year ago. In my opinion, this is the more important day of the year for Americans. And what I wrote last year is worth repeating. I believe July 4th is even more important than religious holidays because a… Read more
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The Remorse of Digital Photos
Reading Time: 4 minutesRemorse, as I’m using it here, means deep regret for a wrong committed. The wrong here is purely unintentional, and probably universally world-wide these days, but I am certain that culturally, we may regret thinking that digital photos will replace printed photos for documenting family history. When my friend Cindy was here… Read more
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Broads in Space
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is the tale of three women who met in the early 1980s while stationed in a Combat Logistics Support Squadron at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. All were members of the United States Air Force, each was married to a male member of the United States military, and all… Read more
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It’s Not National BBQ Day
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the truest spirit of the “holiday”, there’s nothing happy about Memorial Day. In fact, Memorial Day, observed yesterday, is, and should be, the most somber “holiday” of the year. The dictionary definition of holiday is “a day of festivity, or recreation when no work is done.” But what we now know… Read more
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A (Short) Story of Inflation
Reading Time: 2 minutesInflation silently and subversively steals our money. Many of the problems and hardships we’re having with the economy right now are because of inflation. This short post isn’t to explain how or why, but just give you a real-world Ah-ha! moment of how it works. Simple example: A couple of years ago… Read more
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I Broke My Foot Off
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was January 1993 (I think). Twenty years after I’d graduated from junior college, I finally collected enough classes to qualify for a bachelor’s degree. Photo by Bruce Christianson on Unsplash That evening I took my very last final exam. We were living in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Folsom, CA in… Read more
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A Tupperware Tidbit
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNote: I got this information from a Facebook site and thought you’d enjoy this blast from the past. Did you know an amateur inventor and designer named Earl Silas Tupper first invented Tupperware around 1942. Then in the early 1950s, Brownie Wise, a middle-aged housewife and impoverished single mother living in… Read more
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My Old Man
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen I was younger, some of my peers called their fathers their “old man.” As in, my old man won’t let me go out Saturday night if the party includes both boys and girls. As some of those girls grew into datable chicks who liked to date tough boys, those tough girls… Read more
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‘Tis the Week Before Christmas….
Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Tis the week before Christmas When all through the house Not much thought has been given To anything regarding the holiday… Yes, I know it doesn’t rhyme. Which is exactly how Christmas is going to overtake us this year without making much of an impression. In my defense, we’ve been on the… Read more
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Life’s Great Joy
Reading Time: 4 minutesNow that we’re free to travel whenever and wherever and however we want (barring financial considerations, of course) I find myself not caring to leave the home we’ve created in the paradise of Florida. With one exception: to visit friends and family that mean a lot of me and Randy. We’ve been… Read more