When your kids sit down to prepare their birthday or Christmas wish lists, please…give them some elbow room and be patient. List-making was a tricky business for us too, remember—for some of us, a painstaking […]
When I was a teenager, I loved horror movies. Loved them. In high school, I had a friend that worked at a video store and we would go in when he was working and pull […]
Today, I want to specifically talk about the years 1977 – 1980 when I was between the ages seven and ten. There are three television shows that are burned into my brain from that time […]
I was having a conversation with someone the other day about things we used to eat and drink as kids in the 80’s. Surprisingly, they had either never heard of or experienced some of the […]
When I was a kid, TV was a huge deal in my house, as it was in a lot of houses at the time. I’m talking late 70’s, early 80’s (which would put me in […]
The 2024 Paris Olympics are here! This is like Christmas for me because I’m a HUGE Olympic nerd. No seriously. I have an Olympic flag waving outside my house right now. I’ve been known to […]
I’m a child of Star Wars. I saw the original trilogy in the theaters starting at age 7. I had so many action figures and toys. I had shirts and pajamas and lunch boxes. Shoe […]
Not long ago, I mentioned a series of books from my childhood to someone and asked if they had ever heard of them. Somewhat surprisingly, they hadn’t. That got me thinking about all the books […]
I read an article recently talking about the fact that cassette tapes were making a sort of comeback. In fact, as far as cassette tape sales go, there were 436k+ units sold in 2023 while Taylor […]
June, 1985. It’s a boiling hot day in the Texas panhandle. I ride my Huffy 10-speed up to a stop sign intersection that greets me like the gates of Hades. Beyond the intersection, the street […]
May, 1980. My family and I are living in small-town, Oklahoma. I’m ten, my sister is six. By day, my mom is a homemaker, a “stay-at-home mom” if you will. However, several evenings a week, […]
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