The Good Old Days

My Millennial neighbors – very nice people – asked me what it was like to be a Baby Boomer. I scratched my head like I was having a complex thought…but actually, it was just dandruff. Then I started talking. A Boomer’s elementary school day started early, when he sat down for breakfast with the family.…

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Daily Almanac: June 8, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset: RISE: 6:15 a.m. SET: 9:11 p.m. High/Low Temperatures: High: 80 °F Low: 58 °F Today is…: • Best Friends Day • Thomas Paine Day • World Oceans Day What Happened On This Day: • 1949 George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four • 1972 Nick Út takes his famous “napalm girl” photo • 1987 New Zealand…

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Sit-upons, Songs and S’mores

When I was a kid, that meant no more school until after Labor Day, fun at the Forest Park pool, movies at the ABC Drive-in . . . and a week of Girl Scout day camp! I wish I could tell you where the camp was held, but it’s been (ahem) a few years and…

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