Tucked away in a basement room that used to be a wine cellar in our house’s headier days, stands a proud Zenith TV. An ode to simpler times, when everyone gathered around the same screen and made their program choices from three standard channels, the wooden console acts as a warm memory conduit all on [...]
This weekend, I watched a four-year old ride my old rocking horse on springs and I thought what every old person does in these situations, "They don't make 'em like they used it." I was referring, for course, to the toy. They make four-year olds exactly like they used to, which is why I'm shocked [...]
I have a secret workout weapon and I bet you do too. Mine allows me to surround myself with cool memories while I work up a great, shaky-muscle kind of sweat. It's just an old stairwell, but, since we bought the house I grew up in, it's been mine for nearly 50 years. At least [...]
Thanks to my dad's recognition that cool moments need to be preserved, and my mom's genius for saving just the right things, I just saw the program for the 1967 Central Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame, which, among others, included good ole Ron Kostelnik and Johnny Weissmuller. Aaaa-wah-ah-ah-ahhh--wah-ah-ah aaaaa! Tarzan himself signed the program, [...]
My sister Jenny loved her childhood so much she likes to pop back to visit it every chance she gets. For instance, last Saturday on a gorgeous afternoon she convinced us all to go to the Gem Roller Rink, where she and her friend-since-nursery-school Dave whirled around a rink that had not changed much at [...]