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Archive for December, 2006

Weekend in Arkansas

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

On May 17, 1990, Christi, Joy, Ashleigh, and I left for a weekend trip to visit with Christi’s aunt Bonnie and uncle Don. Joy seemed to be closest with this one of her four sisters at the time, and was anxious to show off Ashleigh, who was at this time just approaching the two-month mark. We stayed with […]

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What I Liked in Early 1985

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

One thing I remember well about going into 1985 was that I was fat. So understandably, I was rather camera-shy. There are photos of me during Christmas 1984 and then I really can’t find any more until the Summer of 1985. Not that there was much going on of which to take photos anyway. But […]

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Sunken Gardens 1975

Friday, December 29th, 2006

As I deduced in my previous posting about Florida 1975 and my first trip to Disney World, my Dad did in fact bring along his camera. Once he agreed that there must be additional slides of this trip somewhere, he went on double-secret alert scouting for the missing transparencies. On Christmas Eve, he presented me […]

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D.I.Y.2.K.

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

I spent nearly the entire first half of 2000 blissfully submerged in a resurrection of Dante’s Info. I recall these chilly months working at Xenia Kroger spending every break and then going home and spending nearly every waking minute obsessively reading all of the published works on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and toiling over this […]

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Gerald R. Ford

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

It was sad to hear of President Gerald R. Ford’s passing yesterday at the age of 93 - just a month and a half after he surpassed Ronald Reagan’s record as the longest living President. Those not familiar with the history of the time period might assume that Ford did very little to advance the country - […]

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