Category: Reminiscing
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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
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RIP
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI 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 and… Read more
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North, Not Quite to Alaska
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor 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 condo… Read more
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The Truth About Thanksgiving
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’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 provided… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutesThat 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 shawl… Read more