My earliest recollection of Valentine’s Day was from the third grade. I pasted paper doilies and construction paper hearts on a Buster Brown shoe box, and carefully spelled my name out above the slit my mother had cut in the lid. I dumped the box’s contents on the butcher block kitchen table that afternoon, sifting through the cards until I found the ONE. …
For my dad’s 75th birthday a few years ago, the family celebrated by going away to a hotel in Pennsylvania for a weekend filled with fun, food, family and…did I mention food? We thought that a great way to stamp the event in our memory would be to videotape my mom and dad talking about …
This post first appeared on Mona Andrei’s personal blog, Moxie-Dude.com Two things happened recently that made me question my near-frequent outbursts of nostalgic longing for my youth: I accidentally caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror. (Which made me cringe.) I was given attitude by a pimply-faced “young adult” who’s more than half my …
Helene Cohen Bludman takes some of our favorite music and tweaks the titles so they fit us boomers perfectly. Fun and nostalgic, all at the same time! Read more from Helene on her blog, Books is Wonderful. As a proud member of the baby boomer generation, I confess that I sometimes like to live in …
I have done a couple of these posts in the past and I always enjoy doing it, but today, it feels more difficult to look back and give myself advice or even to sit in judgment of that younger self – the girl or woman of my past. She did okay with what she had …
