I have always been and animal lover, and have kept so many things as pets it’s hard to list them all. Every living thing delighted me, from smallest bug to the largest of animals. That may seem unusual for a girl, but I guess I was an unusual girl, and that’s just fine […]
During my childhood “Good Friday” was good because we would be dying eggs, and in a day or two I was going to be hunting for Easter Eggs. I knew it was also a day that we took special time to remember Jesus dying on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, […]
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My first car was a “hand-me-down” from my Dad, his old Plymouth Valiant station wagon with it’s slanted-six engine, and standard shift on the column. It was Grey, I learned to drive in that car with my Dad at my side, but when it became my car, I painted large colorful […]
A few months ago I was involved in a discussion about, of all things, the Hula-Hoop. It set off a lot of memories, and only now am I getting here to post some thoughts…only to find that today is the anniversary of the patenting of the hula-hoop in 1963 by Hasbro Toys. I […]
As we remember the birth of Dr. Seuss today, in the year 1904, I clearly remember the fun of reading his popular book, “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back“, which followed “The Cat in the Hat”.
We were still living in our home in Nixon/Edison, NJ, and I was old enough to read. […]