Happy New Year
It’ll be a new year soon. The old one was good cos lots of good things happened, among some not so good and also bizarre ones. The status of our […]
Tag Archives: nostalgia
Childhood revisited
Childhood revisited. We went to Ocean City several times each summer when I was a kid. Many memories stand out in my mind, all of them good. One was a […]
Back to a place of childhood memories
In the fall I went on a magical trip, back to a place where I spent a lot of time when I was growing up and as a young adult: […]
It all started with blue corn
Blue Hopi corn, to be exact. The seeds were given to me last year by a dear lady who has since passed away. Her family had been growing this corn […]
Open up a can of…… very old memories
I went around the corner to a neighbor’s garage sale and paid $1 for an old coffee can. It was just an interesting old can to them, but to me […]
OK, I’m old(er)
So I have a birthday coming soon. 67 is not a round number or any great milestone except having lived thru another great year. When I was 30 I would […]
Old family furniture
I’m so happy that some things from my family have been preserved. Some families don’t or can’t keep older things for whatever reason. This plank bottom chair and cherry drop […]
Grandma Trayer’s egg basket
It’s just an old basket, right? Actually it’s about 150 years old, and my uncle’s grandmother used it to gather the eggs from the chickens on the family farm. It’s not […]
A Trolley in Shippensburg
I always like to learn more about the history of my property and the area of town I live in. I discovered an interesting story about the comer near where […]
Making do……have we forgotten how? And does it matter?
I grew up with parents who had lived thru the Great Depression and an awful war. I heard stories from them and my grandmother about austerity, rationing of things during […]
