Category: Reminiscing
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A High School Hero
Reading Time: 3 minutes A couple of days ago this image of a Betty Crocker cookbook was posted on Facebook. A friend of mine from high school made a comment. Several other friends and family (of a certain age) also made comments. In fact, there were 87,000 comments so I guess it’s no surprise I… Read more
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Hurricane Ian
Reading Time: 3 minutes First, I have to say I am sick of talking about Hurricane Ian. It came, it conquered, it moved on. For a lot of Floridians, their lives forever after will be defined by this catastrophic weather event. I understand. We dealt with something similar in 2003 when we went through a… Read more
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The Cone of Uncertainty
Reading Time: 4 minutes As I write this, Randy and I are experiencing the approach of our first hurricane as Florida residents. It’s an interesting experience. My sister in Naples gave me some advice last week. She said when they start talking about a hurricane it takes twice as long to get here as they… Read more
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50 Years Fly By
Reading Time: 5 minutes I had lunch with a good friend of mine a few weeks ago. Though she’s a bit younger than I am, she and her husband just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. My 50th high school class reunion was last week. I got to thinking about how long 50 years really is… Read more
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Football, the Packers, and a 955-Year Waiting List
Reading Time: 4 minutes Randy and I were both born in Green Bay. Randy’s brother still lives in the house they grew up in just a block off Ridge Road, 6 blocks from Lambeau Field. Randy’s dad was a First Aid Manager for the Packers years and years ago, and Randy spent some quality kid… Read more
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Forget the Flying Car, I Want Rosie
Reading Time: 3 minutes My sister Lisa posted this meme on Facebook last Sunday. Oh Lord! George Jetson was born this week. I laughed and then started to read the comments on the original post. There is a wealth of information and trivia there. If you who missed the Facebook post, I figured you’d enjoy… Read more
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Miss You, Dad
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s Father’s Day as I write this. I was blessed. My parents were married to each other up until Dad died a week before Christmas in 2017. We’d celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary at Thanksgiving that year. For some reason everyone, including my parents, wondered for years after why in the… Read more
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Marriage Musings
Reading Time: 4 minutes We made the road trip to Wisconsin, as I mentioned, to attend two family weddings. The first one is now behind us. It was a beautiful, contemporary event. The groom is a favorite nephew of ours, extraordinarily intelligent, a caring, witty fellow who’s got his head screwed on as straight as… Read more
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Feel Free to Sing Along
Reading Time: < 1 minute As promised, here are a couple of other Whirlwind songs for your listening pleasure. Or a good laugh. Your choice. Regardless, they’re happy memories for us. Just click on the image and the songs should play. Read more
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Whirlwind
Reading Time: 4 minutes Randy’s mom was a singer. Quite well known in her day in and around Green Bay. She starred in musicals and sang the National Anthem at Packer games. My dad was a singer. Community theater productions and karaoke before karaoke was called karaoke. Randy and I each got a bit of… Read more