Children today don’t need a Guardian Angel. Who needs angels to watch over you when you have two over-protective parents that monitor each breath, public schools that inspect your lunch bags for trans-fats and a nanny-state government that requires seat belts and helmets when a youngster pulls up a chair to the kitchen table. But Boomers certainly needed Guardian Angels – a whole … [Read more...]

We had lots of snow days when I was a boy, but it was just that - snowy. They didn’t cancel school. Unless the boiler broke down at Lewisburg Junior high School, we went to school, trudged through the snow 5 miles going and 10 miles coming home. Math was different back then. When the back, one-lane roads had drifts so high the buses couldn’t run, the country kids stayed home and had to make up … [Read more...]

  I poured myself a bowl of cereal the other day and immediately turned the box around to read the back cover. Instead of a puzzle, a game or the adventures of some cartoon character, I read only about fiber, saturated fats, calories, various vitamins, niacins, calciums and sugar content. According to the backs of modern boxes, cereals today are heart-healthy, gluten free, whole grain, … [Read more...]

There are some voices that truly stand out in our past. Boomers look back and remember Edward R. Murrow, Arthur Godfrey, Jack Benny, Walter Cronkite, John Cameron Swayze, Orson Welles, Paul Harvey, Mae West and Groucho Marx as among those voices which needed no introduction. When they spoke, you knew who they were. And there is one more. Howard Cosell, the greatest sports commentator of all … [Read more...]

Hey kids! What time is it? Breathes there a Boomer who doesn’t know the answer to that question? If it was Buffalo Bob Smith asking, and it was a weekday afternoon on NBC in the 1950’s, it was most definitely “Howdy Doody time.” Boomers remember the Howdy Doody Show as much for the quality of life during those years as for the quality of this popular children’s program. It was a time of … [Read more...]

I gave Daddy a thermos one year for Christmas. It was a heavy duty thermos, like you’d see in a construction worker’s lunchbox. It was one of Daddy’s favorite gifts ever. That thermos, even today, brings back lots of great memories because it went with us on most of our hunting trips throughout the years. A typical hunt during the Christmas vacation found us leaving the house early in the … [Read more...]

Every Christmas, my Aunt Lena made molasses cookies. When I was at Carolina, she would send me a tin of her homemade sugar cookies along with some molasses cookies. I kept them hidden from my suite mates so I could have them all to myself. Molasses cookies originated among the members of the Moravian Church. The Moravians are among the oldest Protestant denominations dating back to 15th century. … [Read more...]