I wish I had worked out a way to be in South Florida for the month of April. This continual windy, cold weather is really hampering those outdoor activities. This looks like another Northern Virginia season with no Srping weather as we will go from cold to hot with no mild temperatures in between.
Filed under: Reminiscences on April 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
For me growing up, baseball was the National Pastime. We collected baseball cards, had two all star games a year and the workplace came to a halt during the World Series even more than it does during March Madness in today’s world. I cheered for the Dodgers, hated the Yankees and all was well with the world. There […]
Filed under: Reminiscences on March 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We all have stories of things that got thrown away or lost that we wish we still had now. Like many other males my baseball trading cards were chucked. The other item that I wish I hadn’t lost was a button purchased for me by my uncle at John Glenn’s homecoming parade in Washington, DC. It had his […]
Filed under: Reminiscences on March 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I mostly think of March being 31 long days just trying to get to April, Daylight Saving Time, and some true Spring weather. Every year I know the number of days until Spring yet when that first day gets here it is usually cold and still windy. It is still in the solemnity of the Lenten Season. It just […]
Filed under: Reminiscences on March 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
Many times one looks back and relates a story about one’s youth and somebody invariably says either ” that was really stupid” or ” you could have been seriously hurt”? Hmmm, seemed pretty cool at the time. The last story I got that reaction about was this one. I lived in a small city in Dutchess […]
Filed under: Reminiscences on February 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Remember when Lincoln and Washington were important enough for the nation to celebrate their birthdays separately? I think my grade school alternated which we got off. There was none of that three day weekend stuff. We celebrated on the actual day of their birth. Makes me think that since Punxsutawney Phil didn’t have to move […]
Filed under: Reminiscences on February 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
When a young boy, 10 -12, I remember that my friends and I would not wear shorts, even in the summer. We either wore long pants or bathing suits. That was it. The clam-digger was reintroduced into fashion at that time and we did wear those for a time. The clam-digger had been reintroduced to fasion a […]
Filed under: Reminiscences on January 29th, 2007 | No Comments »