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Tag Archives: nostalgia
If It’s Sunday, It Must Be Ice Cream
Yesterday was a chilly, drizzly, dreary day in Virginia Beach. My husband and I always go down to the Oceanfront late in the afternoon or early evening for our Sunday ice cream trip to Dairy Queen. I get a chocolate … Continue reading
Another Victim of the Digital Age
I’m ashamed of it now, but when I was in fifth grade I was a proud child, proud of how rich I thought my family was. No, we weren’t as rich as the families up on “The Hill,” but we … Continue reading
Posted in Just Blogging
Tagged books, Childhood, Education, Encyclopaedia Britannica, life, memories, nostalgia, personal, research, World Book Encyclopedia
47 Comments
The Five and Dime
For Christmas my brother and sister-in-law gave me a book entitled Good Poems, which are the poems that Garrison Keillor selects and reads on his NPR program, The Writer’s Almanac. This morning I read a poem called “Woolworth’s” by Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Favorite posts, Just Blogging
Tagged children, family, Garrison Keillor, home, life, memories, nostalgia, personal, Variety store, Writer's Almanac
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Some years ago, when my oldest granddaughter was about six, I had the pleasure of taking her on her first train ride. It lasted a little over an hour, traveling from Fairfield, Connecticut, into Grand Central Station in Manhattan. As … Continue reading
Posted in Favorite posts, Just Blogging
Tagged family, grandparents, life, memories, nostalgia, personal, trains, Travel
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Funny What Triggers Memories
This week I reorganized the kitchen cabinet that held all my zip-lock bags, aluminum foil, and food wraps. I found a box of waxed paper I must have bought three years ago when we moved here. I decided to use … Continue reading
Posted in Just Blogging
Tagged home, life, memories, NaNoWriMo, nostalgia, personal, Wax paper, Wonder Bread
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Missing Pieces
The other day, while thumbing through an old book, I came across a piece of paper that had the married name of an old college friend written on it. I never would have remembered that married name because I always … Continue reading
Posted in Just Blogging
Tagged aging, college, life, memories, musings, nostalgia, personal, relationships, women
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I’ll Always Be Thankful to Frisch’s Big Boy
The RemembeRed memoir assignment this week, from Write on Edge, is to write about a memory of ourselves WITH someone else. Word limit, 600 or less. A way to start: His/her name was ______________________ and looking back now, I realize…. I … Continue reading
How It All Started
I thought it might be appropriate, the first day after my one-year anniversary, to replay my very first post. I went back to see how many people had actually read it, and the number was a whopping seven. Since then … Continue reading
Antique Home Show
Last night my husband and I were watching Antique Road Show on Public Television, and we were amazed at how much money people’s old things were appraised at. A man who bought some posters of railroads for a dollar could … Continue reading
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Tagged Antique, Coffeemaker, economy, home, humor, life, marriage, nostalgia, personal
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Name That Tune
Crepe paper streamers dangled at the entrance to the Passion Pit, the name my brother and I dubbed the finished basement we used for our party room when we were in high school. It was a misnomer because nothing more … Continue reading
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Tagged Internet, iTunes, Jamaica Farewell, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, life, Linda Ronstadt, memories, music, Neil Sedaka, nostalgia, Pandora Radio, personal
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