Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Monday, February 19, 2024

Every picture tells a story don't it?

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  "Life that is not growing and advancing makes living only not dying." Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir, a pivotal figure in...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Garden Party

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Ricky Nelson sings a song called " Garden Party " and when I went to a "To hell with the Bell" brunch the other day I wa...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Sea gulls and crows

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I was reading  A Retirement Blog  about being " mugged in broad daylight by a winged predator (a seagull) and was reminded of the many...
Friday, July 22, 2022

High School Reunion

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 I graduated 57 years ago and I went to the 25th, 40th, and 50th reunions. Each of them had a different feel and I was glad I did. On the 25...
Monday, June 6, 2022

I didn't start the fire

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I was talking to a 40-year-old about how depressing the world seems to be now. We talked about inflation, the war in Ukraine, COVID, mass sh...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Parking lots

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It is getting close to Christmas and many of us will be out and about, shopping and looking for gift ideas in our local shopping centers. Di...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Radio Stations all over the World

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When I was growing up, I had this old transistor radio and every night I would try to get stations from as far away as I could. I remember b...
Friday, August 2, 2019

Memories are made of this

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My oldest cousin died a while back. I know that death at our age is expected, but hers was a surprise. There are a number of reasons I feel...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Cleaning House

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I had walked down to pick up the mail, and upon my return, my neighbour asked if I felt good about the clean-up. I had to think about that...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Looking back

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I graduated from Simon Fraser University in Economics and Commerce in 1969. In 1972. I entered the Professional Development Program (PDP) ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Walking down memory lane for fun

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If you remember this you grew up in the fifties or became a teenager in the early sixties and were at the vanguard of the Boomer Generation...
Monday, May 30, 2016

The year I started school the world was different.

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My grandson Ryder started school this year; I started school in 1952 and the world was different but some things have not changed. I wish ...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

What happened the year I was born? Here is a website to find out

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If you want to reminisce and learn what happened in your birth year or at any year, go to W hat Happened in My Birth Year and have some fu...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Reunions

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A friend of mine from university, who I had not seen for 5 years, phoned me up and we went to lunch. Reunions with old friends is a good wa...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Memories of high school

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First remember that your past is just a story that is woven by what others tell you and by what you remember, your past does not excuse or ...
Friday, July 6, 2012

My first ventures on the Web (late 90's)

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I was surprised and delighted to find that a group of web historians have taken the time and energy to recover much of  the old Geocities w...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Memories are made of these

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How's This For Nostalgia? 　All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?   Nobody owned a pureb...