Collecting My Thoughts

I usually ignore these memes, but I read it today, and it sort of sobered me. Especially thinking about those 99%. How many of these ring tr...

I've often been suspicious of the memes that claim no one can afford the middleclass lifestyle enjoyed in the 50s-60s when many families...

Some of you are younger and not in the 1% age group. I decided to send it as a history lesson of what life was like then. Yes, I am one of...

It’s interesting that even liberals who see everything in the 21 st century as dark, racist and the fault of the GOP, can think of the 50s-...

This was a comment on a post about impeachment on Facebook. “Jack is in 7 th grade and the other day he was the only one in his history...

I started the day out right--I cleaned my coffee maker with vinegar and water.  So many germs can grow in your automatic coffee pot, you sho...

I don't know how many MMHS graduates remember this, but they actually did close the school one September in the 1950s because it was too...

Earlier this year our daughter gave us Roku, a device that allows streaming if you have an internet connection.  I selected quite a few movi...

History really does repeat itself. I remember Joseph McCarthy--I was in high school and we'd discuss it in class. He led the investiga...

For many years I've had a clothing stash of dresses I've enjoyed wearing. It's time to send them along to wherever old clothes g...

  We just had prettier clothes in those days. 

Our party line was 59-L.  Gayle might remember this.  In Oakwood Hall where we both lived, the pop machine (bottles) began spitting them o...

Neil Cavuto says today is National Pizza day. Works for me.  "National Pizza Day is dedicated to appreciating pizza, a baked flatbre...

Blue hair. That's what we called women over 65 when I was a kid. It was mean, but that's how kids are. And green hair was for a ba...

Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni, noodles or spaghetti. Curry was a surname. A take-away was a mathematical problem. Pi...

Today we are going to a party for which we're supposed to dress in 50s attire.  Because I have a clothing archive, I actually own outfit...

I haven’t visited Manchester University (in Indiana) since the 1990s, and was amazed then at the buildings (not necessarily growth) especi...

My mother (1912-2000) had this attitude about all housekeeping skills, and particularly was careful to look nice when Dad came home from w...

The original copyright for my Singer Sewing Book is 1953. It has similar pithy words of wisdom. "The psychiatrists say that ugly dress...