Category Archives: historyWell, this is awkward. Today’s prompt from NaBloPoMo is -
Tell us about your first kiss.
So.
Just how personal (read vulnerable) do I want to be here in internet land? How much of my past do I want to reveal? And the larger question, do I even remember my first kiss?
The answer to the last question is, [...]
For today’s snack, we have a walk down memory lane:
If you could go back in time and meet your 16-year-old self, what three things would you tell yourself?
Well … now. Things just got really heavy, didn’t they? And sort of existential or something like it. I’m bleary-eyed this morning because I stayed up too [...]
It’s Women’s History Month here in the U.S. of A.
I wonder if there are any people of color who are equally irked by African-American History month? I mean, I understand the motivation behind having these once a year months to focus on here-to-for underserved populations in our midst. But …
But there is something about the [...]
Photo by Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell, licensed under GNU Free Documentation License
The above photo is very familiar to me. Though it may not be to you. I was 8 during the summer of 1969 and becoming more aware of the world around me. I lived in Vermont. I had friends who were old [...]
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Julie Clawson of One Hand Clapping challenged us to find some unsung heroines of the Bible and celebrate their stories today in a synchroblog. So I pulled up BibleGateway and put “daughter” into their search engine. I think it came back with about 110 hits … or something like [...]
One of the things that both amazes me and frustrates me about life these days is plastic. And not just any plastic, but the hard plastic packaging that manufacturers use to protect their products; it’s commonly called clamshell packaging. It is so frustrating to get into that we now need a special instrument just to [...]
When LightHusband and I started dating and for the first part of our married life he was a drummer. He played the snare drum with the Third US Infantry Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps; the US Army’s Honor Guard for the President. About six months after our first date, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated for [...]
When I was in high school it was a huge big deal to gather friends and go to Burlington for the day. I lived in a tiny town in central Vermont. There were about 4 stores in the local larger town, so going to Burlington represented shopping, eating and metropolitan nirvana for us backwoods hayseeds. [...]
So …
Where were you when?
Where were you when John Glenn Neil Armstrong (thanks BroKen) walked on the moon?
Where were you when …
… the first man of African-American descent was elected president?
I’m going to remember every step of this process. I’m going to relish it.
Sometime last weekend it was announced that the final rally of Obama’s [...]
So, like many US-ians I’ve been following the market and the hoopla surrounding what is being called the financial crisis and bailout.
The President is calling for a lot of money to be earmarked to spend on companies which made risky bad financial decisions. Otherwise, so the thinking goes, our market will crash. Our credit will [...]
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