Posted in Technology, childhood, health, tagged childhood, shoe-fitting on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Slumped on my sofa, laptop and TV fully engaged, I’ve been browsing the Web this evening. I came across an article on the old shoe-fitting machines in use when I was a kid. It’s been decades since I thought about those things. They were cutting-edge x-ray technology, seemingly magic. Look through the viewer, see your feet inside [...]
Posted in childhood, entertainment, media on May 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Time magazine this week reported the deaths of Lew Anderson, who played Clarabell the Clown on TV’s The Howdy Doody Show, back in the 50s, and Frankie Thomas, star of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, from the same era.
Yes, children, they did have television in the 1950s, and I was there to watch it. Ouch. It [...]
Posted in childhood, random on February 10, 2006 | No Comments »
It snowed last night. Not much. Two or three inches at most.
But it was a beautiful greeting when I opened the blinds. Bright blue sky, sparkling white snow. Not exactly a virgin snow, though. The sun was already high, the city had plowed the walk on the greenbelt, and the snow had settled into the [...]
Posted in childhood, random on December 23, 2005 | No Comments »
I watched a boy dance with the wind this morning.
He didn’t know I was watching from my second-story window as he played alone in the gusty 40 mph wind. He was perhaps 12 years old and, on this unseasonably warm day, wore a bright yellow T-shirt and shorts. His tan baseball cap was turned backward [...]
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