Dad’s Last Birthday

This post was originally written on September 19th of this year, before I moved the blog to this new location:
It’s a little after midnight, so it’s officially September 19th. I’ve been thinking about it on and off all day, Dad’s birthday is today, and he would have been 83. Dad wasn’t much for […]

An Old Fashioned Sunday Drive

When I was quite small, it wasn’t uncommon for all of us - my 2 brothers, sister, Mom, and myself with Dad driving - to pile into the car and go out for a Sunday drive. We lived in Central Jersey at the time, and my Dad would take us to an airport nearby to […]

Getting Me Into This World ~ The Challenge

Some memories need a little help…what I mean is, I really don’t remember my birth, but my Mom does, so not long ago, I asked her to tell me about it. It wasn’t an uneventful birth, I caused some trouble from the get-go. I was born 2 days after Christmas in 1951, and […]

Why Blog About Memories?

I do a lot of “remembering” lately. A lot has happened to put me in that mode, including the passage of time, and the changes in life that come as years are added to it. I’ve been a “blogger” for a while, and one day it just struck me to start recording my memories. I’ll […]