Things you read, smell, taste, trip over, find or see can trigger memories of days gone by. This posting was triggered when one of my kids sent me a message on FaceBook that Zelda Rubinstein, who played the medium, Tangina in Poltergeist had passed away. She was a small medium. For this story, it was
When Its Not Your Time To Die! A friend in Israel sent this video to me! It truly is remarkable. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPwKAU3JV8I
Tough Choices, But worry not! The solution is at the bottom of the post! Which do you prefer?
It was a while back when Jody our younger daughter attended OU (Ohio University) in Athens Ohio. Athens is a university town in south eastern ohio. Jody was an undergrad with an interest in speech therapy. One of her assignments was to do a study of speech patterns and dialects within the state of Ohio.
Good fences make good neighbors, or so they say. We moved into a brand new subdivision in 1974, and that summer I organized a “fencing party” on our side of the street. We had the owners of about 10 homes over at our house one Saturday afternoon in the spring. The homes were all in
I think I stole this list from someone who stole it from someone else who perhaps stole it from Dave Barry. Want proof [Click Here] 19 THINGS IT TOOK ME 50 YEARS TO LEARN Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. If you had to identify in
It's still 1972 and this is the tale of John Wells or the return to Labrador. Cheryl and I had completed a wonderful tour of parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Island of Newfoundland. In a couple of weeks we had driven and ferried several thousand miles.
Living in Cincinnati can be interesting and weird. We first moved here over ten years ago and people told us of their fear of snow. Cheryl and I have lived in Montreal, Goose Bay, Toronto, Chicago, Salt Lake City and perhaps another place or two along the way. Snow in the cities above is commonplace,
We headed for the capital of Newfoundland. We drove through places with names like Gander, Bonavista, Carbonear, Heart’s Content, Harbour Grace, Conception Bay, Placentia, and went on to Torbay to take the ferry to Sydney, Nova Scotia. There is one tale to tell about this part of journey. Taffy while running near Twillingate had stepped
Sears is a wonderful organization. One wonders sometimes about their benevolent and easy going return policy, but there’s no doubt their customer service works and we keep going back for more. When electronic calculators were just coming on the market, they were quite a novelty and sometimes they actually worked. This is a story about