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Tag: nostalgia

  • High School History

    Last weekend, while my oldest was at camp, Tim and I left our youngest with grandma and took off back to my hometown to go to my 30-year high school reunion. It was my first time back to the building since the nineteen-nineties. Our first activity, was to tour the old high school building. From…

  • Bridges not Walls

    Our music was better than this new stuff that sounds like whiny crybabies. Our cars were looked nicer than these latest models which lack style and coolness. We had the best clothes and fashion in my time, unlike these sloppy kids. Knowing cursive and stick shift and rotary phones shows how more accomplished and smart…

  • Gone, not Gone

    There was a loss in my family last month. My father’s older brother, died of Parkinson’s coupled with Covid. My aunt and cousins chose not have a funeral, so it’s kind of on everyone in the larger family to sort out their feelings separately. While I feel bad for my cousins and my uncle’s wife,…

  • Days of the Dead

    When you study history or other cultures you might be surprised at the amount of death that is incorporated in their art and holidays. Painters used to include Memento Mori, like tiny skulls as reminders of our mortality. The Mexicans celebrate Dias de los Muertos in the fall and the Chinese have Qing Ming in…

  • Cubits & Curiosity

    I was thinking about my Dad recently and his impact in the world. While he never built anything large, nor entertained a wide audience, after his death, for years, I would run into people whose lives he had crossed and created a meaningful connection. One of his talents was listening, not necessarily for relational purpose,…

  • Wizard of the Ring

    I just watch the 1925 classic Wizard of Oz with my children. I was struck by many scenes in the movie seem to be prototypes for the Lord of the Rings saga. To begin with, the concept of someone leaving their quaint home to go on a big adventure is similar. Obviously, both stories have…

  • The Artist

    My dad once told me a story about an artist who made paintings. He didn’t sell his work, but just kept it all. They were too precious to him. The only exception was the one time he gave a painting to a friend for his birthday. Then one day, the artist’s house caught fire and…

  • Happy Haunted Holidays

    This week of winter break we’ve watched a cartoon version of A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. All three movies explore themes of family, separation, conflict, togetherness, poverty and wealth. It makes sense that after seeing all those shows together I would get a haunted fever…