I got a letter in the mail from the New York Times, informing me that the cost of home delivery is going up – again. I thought, didn’t I just have an increase recently? I get the Sunday Times delivered to my home, and with that includes digital access every day. I love the Sunday … Read more
I’m not sure how common this was in the late 1960s or early 1970s, but my parents took a lot of photos and had them developed as 35mm slides, rather than prints. Since many of my childhood photos were in that format, I didn’t really see them or have access to them as they were … Read more
There was a story in the NY Times recently about Millennials who are embracing Bicentennial style, which I found kind of funny considering that the general birth date range for Millenials is usually considered between 1981 and 1996, so they didn’t even experience the Bicentennial firsthand. Coming from my perspective as a Gen X’er, this … Read more
I don’t remember the exact year, maybe it was 1979 or 1980, and I was still in grade school. There was a kid in my class who was a year older (we were in an “Open Program” class, with multiple grades), and one day he asked me if I would be interested in collecting beer … Read more
I was having dinner with my adult (20-something) kids last night, when my youngest surprised me with a question out of no where: would I rather grow up when I did, in the 1970s and 1980s, or now? My initial thought was that I only know what I experienced, but I then quickly followed up … Read more
I was going through some boxes in storage and happened upon a collection of football cards and stickers from the 1970s. I pulled out these stickers that I hadn’t looked through in ages, and had forgotten that wherever or whenever I got them – in a trade with some other kid, I believe – that … Read more
