To Lea Blake, who was the first wife of a friend of mine from way back, and who put up with me for six weeks while I lived with them in Florida. She notably introduced me to refried beans, currently a staple of my diet.

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To high school friend Bill Knight. In the seventies I learned my very first bits of BASIC from him, and did my very first playing with a computer on one he had gotten.

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I heard on the radio this morning, on my way home from work, that Steven Tyler is 63 today. Amazing! And yet, about right, since that means he’d have been about 25 when Aerosmith hit big. I vividly remember Dream On as a new hit song, hearing it play on the radio, [...]

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Some things are memorable beyond merely their timing in my youth…

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Another TV memory of my childhood. One I can’t believe was a successful show or concept taken seriously enough to make it into production…

I see this now and all I can say is “we liked it? We really, really liked it?” Okay, so maybe it was sort of cute and funny, light and fluffy [...]

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I’m sitting here doing the paperwork for my daughter’s enrollment in kindergarten, for which we have been ordered to appear by the school system at 1:30 PM tomorrow. She will be 6 in September, at the old end of the spectrum for her class.
We’d wanted to home school, but she is sooo excited about [...]

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As also noted by Leslie, Fess Parker has died. I don’t remember seeing the other two things for which he was known, though I am familiar with the Davy Crockett tune and suspect I must have seen some of them. I frequently sing the first part, changing the name to that of one of my [...]

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Anyone else remember this obscure and mercifully short-lived series?

I’ve never forgotten it, mainly for the catchy theme song, since clearly I forgot, or didn’t notice due to my youth, just how over the top the humor and absurd some of the details were…

I was very young in 1967. Sad, as the concept has potential [...]

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My parents encouraged reading, and my mother made sure I got books to the best of our ability to afford them or borrow from the library. I got a bunch through the Weekly Reader Book Club, including ones I remember parts of vividly but can’t begin to remember the names of. Funny how [...]

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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. The first time I can remember ever hearing it as a young kid, strangely enough, was at my grandmother’s house, from the radio in the dining room. It put me into a mental state, almost a waking dream, in which I imagined as vividly as [...]

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