Some people claim that each generation can be defined by its music. From the jazz of the roaring twenties to the bebop of the ‘40’s , you could argue that the claim is true. But as in many things, our Baby Boomer generation isn’t so easily defined.
A recent advertisement for the Appalachian Summer Festival concert [...]
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Speaking of Music…Songs of a Generation
Do You Remember Penny Candy?
A recent blog post I read promised to ‘take me back in time’ with photos of candy from my youth. Who can resist a tagline like that, I was sucked in and went to the site to gaze at memories from my youth. Sadly, although there were a couple childhood favorites like candy cigarettes, [...]
Snow Days
Here in western North Carolina we’ve recently been dealing with a bit of winter weather. Looking out my window, snow still covers the ground from last weekend’s storm, even as the rain attempts to wash it away. One of the reasons I moved to North Carolina was to enjoy milder winters, and so far [...]
Holiday Favorites
In my last post I mentioned that part of my holiday tradition includes watching the movie, “The Santa Clause” every year. Can I share something else with you? It’s not the only holiday movie I make it a point to watch yearly. What others share that designation?
Well, of course, there’s the animated cartoon [...]
Santa Please Bring me…
One of my holiday traditions is watching The Santa Claus with Tim Allen. There are tons of funny moments in the movie, but there is one section that brings back memories every time. It’s the point where Laura and Neil are discussing the point at which they stopped believing in Santa Claus. [...]
Holiday thoughts
I completely identify with the Thanksgiving memories in today’s blog entry – my own are not unlike those described. There is a wonderful innocence to childhood holiday activities. As we grow up, we realize that adults and in-laws and partners and friends don’t always feel such warm and fuzzy feelings at this time [...]
Over the River & Through the Woods…
I took the turkey out of my freezer this morning so it could thaw in time for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving? When did that happen?
Of course that started my thoughts on a trip down memory lane.
Thanksgiving was a pretty important holiday when I was a child. I remember my grandmother baking pies for what seemed like [...]
Do You Remember Soupy Sales?
In this age of high definition signals viewed on flat screen television sets, it sometimes makes it easy to forget that as Baby Boomers our first taste of television was in black and white.
One of my first black & white impressions is of Soupy Sales. The news of his recent passing had me searching my [...]
Remembering the Way We Were; Celebrating the Way We Are
A few weeks ago I was standing in line at the grocery store, glancing at magazine headlines. A small photo and headline grabbed my attention and I mumbled, “That’s Shaun Cassidy?”
The woman in front of me smiled slightly, her eyes sparkling as she looked at me and said, “I loved him when I was a [...]
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