Category: Reminiscing
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A Tupperware Tidbit
Reading Time: < 1 minute Note: 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… Read more
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My Old Man
Reading Time: 4 minutes When 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… 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… Read more
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Life’s Great Joy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Now 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… Read more
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RIP
Reading Time: < 1 minute I heard the shocking news a couple of days ago that one of my best friends from the Air Force died of a heart attack in October. She was younger than I and much more active. Apparently it was a sudden and completely unexpected death. Carol was no longer married… Read more
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North, Not Quite to Alaska
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the Thanksgiving holiday Randy and I decided to head north to visit family and friends. To be fair, it’s pretty much the only direction you can go by car for more than a couple hours from where we now live. Our first stop, Myrtle Beach, SC was a sweet little… Read more
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The Truth About Thanksgiving
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s no law that says you have to serve turkey on Thanksgiving Day. And there’s no evidence that turkeys were served at what is depicted as the first Thanksgiving Day when the pilgrims in New England sat down with the Wampanoag people in 1621. The Wampanoag brought deer and the pilgrims… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes That third shawl…. As I was knitting it, as the colors worked up, the greens reminded me of prairie fields, the tans of beach sand, the blues of oceans and skies, and the purple of mountains majesty. And it occurred to me, out of the blue, that I should name the… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 1)
Reading Time: 4 minutes I don’t remember when or how I learned to knit and crochet. I do remember enjoying both though and being fascinated by (as Randy describes) being able to turn one big, long string into so many different interesting, colorful, and useful things. This is not the actual afghan, but is similar.… Read more
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Conquering Clutter
Reading Time: < 1 minute Years ago, before the tornado, I taught a class in the adult community education program called Conquering Clutter. It was very popular and I was pretty good at it. In fact, a tornado is the ultimate clutter conquerer but I don’t recommend it. This week, as I was putting the… Read more