Articles tagged with childhoodmemories
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Bush Jr. and Obama
Final post in this series: Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to Ford and Carter to Reagan to Bush Sr. and Clinton to … * * * 43rd POTUS, George Bush Jr. (2001 – 2009) Not being disrespectful but there are line
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Bush Sr. and Clinton
Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to Ford and Carter to Reagan to … * * * 41st POTUS, George Bush Sr. (1989 – 1993) Was working for the federal government in Washington, D.C., at the time. Bush Sr.'s years in office as POTUS &ndas
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Reagan
POTUS Dots from Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to Ford and Carter to … * * * 40th POTUS, Ronald Reagan (1981 – 1988) Mr. Reagan truly desired or aspired to be the president. He spent years trying to accomplish this objective. Fi
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Ford and Carter
POTUS Dots from Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to … Similar to my previous post, combining these next two POTUS Dots also. * * * 38th POTUS, Gerald Ford (1974 – 1977) Served as Vice-President with Nixon and was then elected
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Johnson and Nixon
POTUS Dots from Eisenhower to Kennedy to ... Will have to combine these next two POTUS Dots. Not a lot to extract by way of recollection for one of them. * * * 36th POTUS, Lyndon Johnson (1963 – 1969) As Vice-President for John F. Kenned
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Kennedy
Continuing to follow the dots on my timeline which started with Eisenhower. * * * 35th POTUS, John F. Kennedy (1961 – 1963) - What do I recall? The grown folks around me sure thought he was a good POTUS. Didn't know much but saw no reason to disag
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Eisenhower
It's 2016. Another election year in the United States of America. Thought this might be a good time to look back. For those who may be unfamiliar with the process, American presidents are voted in by the people. Although if you believe in the gospel accord
Looking Back: Playing Football with My Brother
I have one sibling, a brother not quite two years younger than I. Until the age of 10 or so, I was the taller of the two of us, but from that point forward, he began to tower over me. Still, the two of us entertained ourselves playing the usual ch
There's Another Izzy?
Everybody know who dat, who dat? I-Z-Z-Y * Iggy Azalea has got some people angry – they seem to think she's a fake RAPPER. A white girl from Australia?? She can't be real! (Whatever!) She also has other people like
Seven Wonders Plus One (or Two)
My late sister was an avid reader. She read anything and everything – books, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries. My appreciation for the joys of reading did not come until my university years. My sister's brain was a repository of all
Record Your Stories of Local Buildings Before It's Too Late
As we get older, the community we live in tends to change. Parts that were once popular become neglected or their usgae changes over time. There are so many buildings wherever we live that have already gone, demolished. Then, as the population gets older,
New Zealand Summer Camping in the 1950s
Back in the 1950s camping was a popular way of taking annual summer holidays here in New Zealand. Not the comfort of cabins, motels or campervans of today, but setting up home in a tent at the beach for a week or two. For my family it was an economical hol
Sunday Driving in the 1950s
When I was a child in the 1950s my family would often go for a Sunday drive. We'd all bundle into the car, Mum and Dad in the front and us kids in the back . I'm not sure if there was ever a planned destination, but usually the trips took us out into the c
