This weekend as Ray and I anticipated the annual fall back to standard time, we enjoyed remembering a family spring forward story from many years ago. At the time, we were living in Illinois and our parents were living in…
When our children were little, we all enjoyed playing with a toy camera that worked similarly to a View-Master. Unlike the View-Master, there were no reels to change. You simply clicked the big orange button on the front and watched…
. . . from 81 years ago! Once upon a time NBC radio broadcast an annual Congressional Children’s show. The Congressional Club, founded in 1908 to foster friendship between the wives of U.S. senators and members of the House of…
Ray and I have done it again. We have each listened all the way from Little House in the Big Woods through These Happy Golden Years in the Little House series. I listen while I am putting on makeup or…
The Harvey’s department store in Nashville, Tennessee, was a children’s wonderland all year ’round. Harvey’s slogan was “It’s fun to shop at Harvey’s.” It was. Carousel horses stood in alcoves along the escalators. On the top floor was a full-sized…
I looked down at this bowl several weeks ago while I was washing groceries on the front porch. I thought, “Wow! That is really beautiful!” My hands were a soapy, wet mess, so I asked Ray to take a picture…
