Tues., April 5, started at 7 am. (Kill me now; that’s the middle of the night for me.) Thank God there was a Yum Yum (my dictation sof...
The first time I ever went back to my high school, Mumford, after graduating in 1965 was when my musical, The Color Purple, first came to th...
My intentions were good. I was gonna wake up and spring back into action as I haven’t blogged regularly in over a week but my body sti...
Next week I’m going back to my home town, Detroit, to conduct my high school marching band playing a medley of my greatest hits in t...
As much as I look forward to rolling out of bed every morning and choosing wonderful gems of kitsch you all bestow upon me and AWMOK, today ...
This is me with two friends on the front page of our local newspaper (Inglewood, CA) in the summer of 1968. We are eating rose petals in ...
miami and miami beach have many free weekly newspapers. the subject publication, which i had not seen before, is the “miami beach news...
David B. No last name, just to protect his privacy. He could be reading this. I have never met David but I’m glad I gathered a bit o...
When I grew up in Detroit I went to the zoo on 10 Mile and Woodward at least a couple times a year. Although I got this particular chapeau ...
I love these puppets which have popped up on Allee’s blog before but wanted to give them a post in the Wonderland series. I love the l...
I like to think I am up on the collecting of certain things like games, toys etc but I had no idea the amount of African American games that...
I’m happy to report that my own recently operated on left knee is finally allowing my leg to return to its natural state such as mod...
I went to Missouri to visit my daughter and her family last weekend, and had the opportunity to watch my granddaughter play basketball (s...
What on earth? A graduation picture or a glamour shot picture. I’m not sure but this makes me a little sick to my stomach....
Unless you can’t stand to look at meat or poultry this is a cookbook that’s filled with thrilling visuals, not the least of whic...
Life was so simple in the mid 60’s in Ohio. Friday night basketball games with the adversary HS. Then onto Garner Brothers drive-in, e...
Thought I share my senior pic too. I grew up near the beach in Southern California and we would put lemon juice in our hair to get blonde hi...
This is my pumpkin cake. It is made from two bundt cakes on top of one another. The icing is just plain vanilla icing that I colored with or...
If I seem happy, it might be because I was bailing out of what I thought was a wasteland, and I got to throw away my draft card (oh, and the...
MUMFOR HIGH SCHOOL… Getting ready to open in 1949… Wonder if you close your eyes… if you can still smell the wonderful sce...
You More than anything, the one thing that accompanied me every single day of my four college years at the University of Wisconsin in the la...
Crayon-holder girl from the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933. Made of wood. Has a hole in her head, so she’s probably missing a pom-...
I love these old covers. I don’t ever recall seeing any nurse that looked this fabulous....
. Other than I didn’t have a car so my world was very small when I went to college at the University of Wisconsin in the late 60’...
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