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Childhood Memories Friday: Strawberry Memories

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, tagged on May 17, 2013 | 3 Comments »

If you ask me my favorite fruit, I’d have to say strawberries. They taste so good, and strawberry memories? Yeah, I have a few. Here I am back in 1966, not even 2 years old, looking clearly caught in the act by the camera as I reach for strawberries at the kitchen table with my [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Fisher Price Little People

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, Uncategorized, tagged on May 10, 2013 | 5 Comments »

For this week’s walk into the past, let’s look again at Fisher Price Little People. I know I’ve shared about my love of Fisher Price toys before, but I was so fond of them that they deserve more ink. This 1974 photo shows my sister and me with some type of Little People feast. Notice [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Motels

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, tagged on May 3, 2013 | 5 Comments »

Some of my best childhood memories involve vacations. And our vacations involved motels. Not hotels. Motels. And I’m wondering, when did motels turn into hotels? Because nowadays, I never hear anybody talk about a motel. As a child, I never really remember hearing about a hotel. So is this something that changed in the language, [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Crayola Crayons

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, Uncategorized, tagged on April 26, 2013 | 5 Comments »

Remember crayons? Specifically, remember Crayola crayons? I do; they’ve been around longer than I have. As a child, I was always fascinated with the big 64-crayon box — so much for the 64 crayons as for the amazing crayon sharpener on the box! Alas, I never had one of these gargantuan boxes of crayons. But [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Boston Memories

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, tagged on April 19, 2013 | 4 Comments »

With all our thoughts and prayers in Boston, I’ve been thinking about that fair city and its association with my childhood — or at least, teenage years. A few Boston memories: My first flight was to Boston. I’d won a Girls Club national award for sewing (I entered the same outfit that won me a [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Washington D.C.

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, Uncategorized, tagged on April 12, 2013 | 7 Comments »

In the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of visiting Washington D.C. three times, once with each of my girls on a fifth grade bus trip. We visited the Capitol and lots of monuments. One thing we never did, though, was visit the White House. We didn’t even get close. A time or two, [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: School Play

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, tagged on April 5, 2013 | 5 Comments »

As I look back through photographs from my childhood, I’m struck by how many fewer pictures we (our family, and I assume most) took then, compared to now. I think one single photograph documents my entire school journey — at least, I can only find one photo taken of me inside school. Ready for it? [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Easter Memories of Days Gone By

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, tagged on March 29, 2013 | 6 Comments »

Easter Memories Any Easter memories of days gone by? So much time has passed that it’s hard for me to remember much of my earliest Easters. There I am, all decked out in 1965 for my first Easter. I obviously have no memories of this, but my main thought upon looking at this picture is [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Carbon Paper

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, tagged on March 22, 2013 | 4 Comments »

Sometimes, a blast from the past will wander into my day. This happened the other day as I was getting ready to shred some old tax papers. What did I come across but an old credit card receipt, with — yes — carbon paper. Carbon paper. Remember that? The black paper sheets we rolled into [...]

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Childhood Memories Friday: Dad turns 35

Posted in Childhood Memories Friday, tagged on March 1, 2013 | 6 Comments »

Today, a photo celebrating 1970s memories: my dad’s 35th birthday, which, as you’ll note from the calendar towel on the wall, was in 1974. My mom noted on the back Dad sadly turns 35. And indeed, only my sister (on the left) appears happy. Why my dad and I are so morose, I can’t say. [...]

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