Category: Reminiscing
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Football, the Packers, and a 955-Year Waiting List
Reading Time: 4 minutesRandy 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 time… Read more
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Forget the Flying Car, I Want Rosie
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy 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 laughing,… Read more
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Miss You, Dad
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’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 world… Read more
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Marriage Musings
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe 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 any… Read more
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Feel Free to Sing Along
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs 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 minutesRandy’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 singing… Read more
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Summer of Love
Reading Time: 4 minutesI see references to “Summer of Love” all over the internet these days. No clue why. One reference suggested the Summer of Love happened the year of Woodstock, 1969. That made sense, but a quick internet search proved that information to be untrue. Too bad, because 1969 was the summer I met… Read more