Tag: Back in the Day

Letting Go the Face of My Brand! Good-bye Captain!

.Reading time 5 minutes.

I was still very young when I took that picture in the Captain’s Hat. I thought, incorrectly, that 40 and older was a little dusty—not like the youthful, dewy 40, 50, and 60’s of today. I had gone to Sears with my daughters, who were nine and four at the time, and I’d been lured […]

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10 Quick Tips About Baby Boomers

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American Baby Boomers are a rare breed. They were blessed to have lived during a time when Americans were free to express themselves through sit-ins, marches, protests, demonstrations, bra-burning, and the Beatles. Baby Boomers experienced an avalanche of 20th and 21st Century hysteria. They have few regrets! They invented technology. They paid into their pensions and Social Security. Their […]

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My Grandmother As Inspiration

.Reading time 6 minutes.

My grandmother, affectionately called Miss Dorothy, lived in a beautiful white frame house on the corner of a shady street. The Memphis Transit bus stopped a few feet from her front door and she knew everybody who got on or off the bus. Consequently, there was a lot of “Good morning!” “Good evening!” and hat […]

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