Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
(Reposted from 2015 in honor of my father in-law's birthday) Had fate been just a little bit kinder and my father in-law a little less polite, we’d all have been at the race track yesterday. We’d vet horses by name, number and jockey silk, and raise our glasses to one of the greatest teams we [...]
I can't take time in a bottle, but for a few minutes on a Monday afternoon I popped a Jim Croce tape into an old 8-track tape player and took myself back to 1972. To my shock, that old relic fired right up, which proved to be somewhat problematic for a hyper-nostalgic person like myself. [...]
A recent road trip playlist got me thinking about how lucky we were to grow up in the 1970s. You won't find a better decade for music, I can promise you that. We had rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Kiss and Queen; softer rock like the Eagles, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac; soul [...]
My husband unearthed a real gem during his ruthless attic purge a few weeks ago. “Hey, I found this red and green coat,” he casually said Saturday afternoon. “I hung it in the garage to air out. Do you want to check it out before I take it to Goodwi—-?” He might have finished saying [...]
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 [...]