Posts Tagged ‘nostalgia’

Fleeting

Posted: 7th August 2011 by Brian in Personal
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Scary Spooky Stories

Posted: 30th March 2011 by Brian in Personal
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When I was around six or seven years old, my brother and I used to listen to a collection of short horror stories on our little Sears record player.  It was a collection of six stories, told by three different narrators, on a full-size LP.  It was called “Scary Spooky Stories”, released by Troll records [...]

36 Trips Around the Sun

Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Brian in Personal
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I turned thirty-six in February.  Thirty-six, if you can believe that shit.  Four years away from forty.  Forty!  That’s the age of someone’s dad!  Oh wait; I am someone’s dad. When I was young-grade school age-I never thought much past age thirty.  I wondered what I’d be doing when I was twenty one.  I wondered [...]

It Came From the Seventies

Posted: 8th April 2009 by Brian in Personal
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Around the time I turned 35 (and my oldest son turned 4) I started thinking about some of my own experiences from my childhood while I watching my son hard at play with some of his favorite toys. I had a wonderful childhood, at least up until my parents’ divorce in 1983, but my fondest [...]