The Importance of Family and Connection
Embed from Getty Images — I was walking toward the beach the other day when I passed it in the window of a pawnshop. It was immediate nostalgia. I could almost smell the old school perfume emanating...
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5 Things That Happen to You When You Leave Your Hometown
— Everything changes once you take off and start somewhere new. When you first land, it’s normal to feel anxious, scared, maybe even a little sick to your stomach, and excited. Then you blink and...
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A Musical Obsession
— “We went fishing, in the skies of Montana, and pulled the stars right out of the teeny-weeny sky.” ~Frankie & Jimmy I’m not usually one for nostalgia. For the most part, nostalgia is a...
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17 Reasons I’m Still in Love With You
— . RSVP for Love Sex Etc. Calls . Just because a relationship is over doesn’t mean we stop loving that person. Mark Radcliffe explores the beauty and the pain of loss — Believe me, I don’t want to...
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Old Things Have Strange Hungers
— Old things have strange hungers. ~Catherynne M. Valente We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we...
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Ten Years After
Canmore Alberta. For nearly a year I spent time walking through town only driving occasionally when the family I was staying with would ask me to take their truck to do something for them. After a...
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Back in the Day
I started watching the newest season of Fuller House with my girls the other day. They love the silly humor and the fact that I watched the adult character as kids on Full House. In one episode they...
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Family Reunions: A Sense of Legacy
DETROIT (July 14 and 15, 2017)—A smoky sizzle permeated the air as my cousin, Dana, manned the barbecue grill. She flipped burgers, hot dogs, and kabobs for hours at Belle Isle Park as descendants of...
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A Meditation on R.E.M., the Soundtrack of My Youth
— To understand my love of the band R.E.M., you have to understand what it meant to grow up in the shadow of Stone Mountain, Georgia, equidistance from Atlanta and Athens, in the 1980s and 90s. Outside...
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Flick Your Bic
I found my old pez dispenser today, I held it in my hand, as years of memories sifted through my mind like sand. I don’t remember why I thought this thing was so cool but clearly owning one was an...
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A Ribfest to Remember
Naperville, Ill. (July 3, 2017)—Fireworks emblazoned the night sky, their explosions choreographed to a patriotic simulcast from 95.9 The River, the FM station of rock ‘n roll favorites. My daughter,...
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Ring Dings
It was a sandwich rotation. Listed in order of preference: 1) Cream cheese with grape jelly 2) Tuna 3) Bologna and cheese 4) Peanut butter with orange marmalade 5) Underwood Deviled Ham 1968: I...
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Man V Machine
— Every night before bed, Alaina gets a book. First we read it, then she takes a turn. This morning she picked out a Shrek DVD to watch with breakfast and in the truck requested the Snoop Lion CD to...
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What is Nostalgia? [Video]
— One of the most enjoyable and valuable things we can do in life is reflected. Reflect on the moments that have past and consider them through a detached state of mind so we can appreciate what we...
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War
War, that’s a game. But you can only play it in the summer and you can only play it after dark or, almost after dark. Gary showed me how to play, I don’t know where he learned it. You can even play...
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Modern Celebrity
— We all have our favorite “celebrities”, even if we aren’t always comfortable calling them that. “People of high public profile” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. I’ll go see any movie written and...
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Everything New Is Old Again: Dictating Your Writing
— As I’ve started using Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, and doing more dictating (like this blog post), I’ve been struck by the similarities between dictating and old-school film photography. You...
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My Mother’s Kick-Ass Rock N’ Roll Collection, a Story About Family Legacies
It’s a challenge to write about a loved one who passes away, especially when it is your mother who could have lived twenty or thirty years beyond her death. Cleaning out the contents of her home was...
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The Country is Having Collective Restorative Nostalgia
— I cringe every time I hear “Make America Great Again.” We all have varied experiences of what life was like in the past. It’s very easy to remember only the good things while not being able to see...
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The Automobile Was My Internet
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, the automobile was my internet. It connected me to my friends. Options were limited, otherwise. Sure, you could have kids over, but not if you couldn’t escape...
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