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Childhood Memory Monday – Challenger, 1986
I started this blog post on Thursday, January 28th, the anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger’s destruction. This is a time of sad anniversaries for NASA. On January 27th, Apollo 1 exploded...
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Memory Monday – 9/11/2001
September 11th has just passed. Everyone already wrote on their blogs about that day. It’s my turn. I was living in Nashville, Tennessee, about to head south to visit my cousin Ed in Arlington, Texas....
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Childhood Memory Monday – New Year’s Eve
Olive Tree Genealogy is hosting 52 weeks of Sharing Memories – A Genealogy Journal. I don’t tend to keep up with the regular columns, or I haven’t in the past, but let’s see how I can do with some of...
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Childhood Memory Monday – My Grandparents, Part 1
Week 2 of Sharing Memories is about grandparents. This again is one of those times where I desperately wish I had more memories from my childhood. I had three grandparents alive while growing up, but...
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Childhood Memory Monday – My Grandparents, Part 2
Week 2 of Sharing Memories is about grandparents. This is the second part, for my maternal grandparents. Mom’s Parents Abraham and Ida Rosenthal, October 1977 Bubby and Zaida, as we called them, were...
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Childhood Memory Monday – Valentine’s Day
I recall a bit about Valentine’s Day in junior and senior high school. In eighth grade, the V-Day gifts were carnations, delivered during first period. Oddly, one stray delivery showed up for me during...
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Childhood Memory Monday – Technology
While I’ve got a few entries from the Olive Tree Genealogy Blog 52 Weeks of Sharing, Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog has also been doing a similar theme of Personal Genealogy History. So for this week,...
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Childhood Memory Monday – Pets
Back to Olive Tree Genealogy’s 52 Weeks of Sharing, the topic is childhood pets. We had a bird that I don’t remember, and my brother had a goldfish, but the family pets were a dog and a duck. Sir...
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Childhood Memory Monday – TV Shows
I like the topic of Olive Tree Genealogy’s Sharing Memories this week, so I’m back in. I know I watched Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Captain Kangaroo when I was little. And of course,...
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