When Dad was about 35 years old, he was sent to NYC on a business trip and he took mom with him. My grandmother babysat for me, my...

Just about the time my sister, brother, and I had nearly wet our pants or broke out in hives - which my brother did one year, but it was...

Lunch in the Missouri Room at Christmas with dad was a gift in itself. We paraded through the huge dining room where shoppers lunched...

The winters in St. Louis, Missouri were bitter cold and our Christmases were often white with snow. I grew up in a three-story, brick...

Dad had taken a position as an Executive VP with the Sanger-Harris Department stores in Dallas, Texas. This new job came with an...

Dad's nickname came from my uncles who adored my father who was the only college educated person in either side of my parents' families....

My parents were young and beautiful when they met during WWII. Just twenty years old when they married, their thirty-five year marriage...

Really? While attending elementary school, all students were asked to engage in a bomb drill at least twice a month that required us to...

Children in the 1950s had their tonsils removed with the same conviction and frequency that Adderall is prescribed to kids today. The...

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" adults would ask while wiping snot from our noses, dabbing mercurochrome on scraped knees, or...

Even if you don't know what the hell the prayer means. Such as: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should...

Who the heck was this Pete my mother always yelled about when her kids drove her crazy? "For Pete's sake, get outta here and go outside!...

The dinner table mantra: "Eat everything on you plate whether you like it or not." This was a tough one for me because I was the typical...

After Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted polio while on vacation at his family's lake house in New Brunswick, Canada, the association...

Another grand chase that entertained the hordes of neighborhood children was the ice cream truck. Although I couldn't hear the truck...

Behind the city truck, huge clouds of an insecticide laced with DDT were sprayed into peoples' yards lining the street. When the truck...

At least three full glasses a day. Nearly every evening at dinner, I left my milk sit next to my plate without even lifting the glass to...

THE SUNLAMP: (A LITTLE HISTORY FIRST) A large ultraviolet lamp manufactured by General Electric in the 1930s, becoming very popular in...

Greetings from a Memorant, which basically is a Latin word for storyteller or story keeper. I welcome you to join me in treasuring your...