Articles tagged with memories
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Bush Jr. and Obama
Final post in this series: Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to Ford and Carter to Reagan to Bush Sr. and Clinton to … * * * 43rd POTUS, George Bush Jr. (2001 – 2009) Not being disrespectful but there are line
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Bush Sr. and Clinton
Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to Ford and Carter to Reagan to … * * * 41st POTUS, George Bush Sr. (1989 – 1993) Was working for the federal government in Washington, D.C., at the time. Bush Sr.'s years in office as POTUS &ndas
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Reagan
POTUS Dots from Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to Ford and Carter to … * * * 40th POTUS, Ronald Reagan (1981 – 1988) Mr. Reagan truly desired or aspired to be the president. He spent years trying to accomplish this objective. Fi
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Ford and Carter
POTUS Dots from Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson and Nixon to … Similar to my previous post, combining these next two POTUS Dots also. * * * 38th POTUS, Gerald Ford (1974 – 1977) Served as Vice-President with Nixon and was then elected
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Johnson and Nixon
POTUS Dots from Eisenhower to Kennedy to ... Will have to combine these next two POTUS Dots. Not a lot to extract by way of recollection for one of them. * * * 36th POTUS, Lyndon Johnson (1963 – 1969) As Vice-President for John F. Kenned
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Kennedy
Continuing to follow the dots on my timeline which started with Eisenhower. * * * 35th POTUS, John F. Kennedy (1961 – 1963) - What do I recall? The grown folks around me sure thought he was a good POTUS. Didn't know much but saw no reason to disag
POTUS Dots on My Timeline: Eisenhower
It's 2016. Another election year in the United States of America. Thought this might be a good time to look back. For those who may be unfamiliar with the process, American presidents are voted in by the people. Although if you believe in the gospel accord
Childhood Christmas Memories from the Early 1960s
Living alone, and most family not living in the same town or city, makes the holiday season much like any other day or season to me. Of course, if I make my way out of my cocoon, I cannot escape the commercial overload. That is something that does not bo
Looking Back: My Earliest Halloween Memory
My earliest Halloween memories go back to when I was five-years-old and my brother three-years-old. We wore the costumes of the time (early 1960s), those store-bought costumes with the plastic masks. He was cute as a button in his Sylvester the Cat c
Looking Back: Playing Football with My Brother
I have one sibling, a brother not quite two years younger than I. Until the age of 10 or so, I was the taller of the two of us, but from that point forward, he began to tower over me. Still, the two of us entertained ourselves playing the usual ch
Austin, Texas - The Wild Wild West?
Back in the day there was a popular TV show called “Wild Wild West” about American government secret agents in the west. One agent was Artemis who was a master of disguise; a handy skill to have when you need to sneak into places. The other age
The Best Way to Spend a Rainy Day
I love rain. I have always loved rain. When I was a child, I lived in a place where we didn't get enough rain - there was a drought that lasted for years - so whenever we got any rain, we, as kids, just savored it. Rain usually brought fr
Pic of The Day: Hugging John Cena
I think most of you know by now that I am a huge WWE fan, and I have mentioned favorites such as Shawn Michaels and Randy Orton. One of my other favorites is John Cena. Today is John Cena's 38th birthday, so my picture of the day is from the third time I m
A House Holds Memories
As we’ve been getting my husband’s house ready to rent this time, it occurs to me how different a house can seem as its history changes. One’s experience with a house has much more to do with the memories you made in the house than with t
Pic of The Day: NYC in Jan. of 2015.
I think once in a while I am going to do this "Pic of The Day" thing. It's pretty simple; I post a photo and discuss the memory attached to it. I snapped this selfie of myself back in January of 2015, when I took a day trip to New York City with my friend
Tracing My Footsteps
Born and raised in Miami, Florida. What was the most memorable thing about this city? The weather! Very seldom – exclude the hurricanes – was there ever really bad weather. As a little child, actually thought that Sunday was called Sunday becau
My List of Firsts
I think you all know by now that I enjoy doing writing prompts, and I kind of like to make lists. Sometimes I look for writing prompts that asks the writer to make lists, and I found one that I like. It is basically to make a list of firsts. It already has
There's Another Izzy?
Everybody know who dat, who dat? I-Z-Z-Y * Iggy Azalea has got some people angry – they seem to think she's a fake RAPPER. A white girl from Australia?? She can't be real! (Whatever!) She also has other people like
Happiness In A Box - Blast From The Past
This is the first of my #BlastFromThePast series, read the full post here, http://www.personapaper.com/article/26168-blast-from-the-past---my-belated-musings . ==========Back in the day, there are things that as a child, I look forward to during
Writing Prompt: Childhood Memory
I am so behind -ONCE AGAIN- that it is not even funny. But here I am, trying to squeeze my blogging in between my assignments and trying to finish everything up at a decent time.Anyways. I found this writing prompt a few days ago, and it asks “What o
Seven Wonders Plus One (or Two)
My late sister was an avid reader. She read anything and everything – books, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries. My appreciation for the joys of reading did not come until my university years. My sister's brain was a repository of all
Virtual Communities, Virtual Memorials, AKA, Facebook After Death
#MsBiz recently wrote "Have you chosen your Facebook executor/executrix?", and it got me thinking back to when I joined the Facebook Monster. I was engaged in a little bit of social media in the form of a message board with other single people who
Record Your Stories of Local Buildings Before It's Too Late
As we get older, the community we live in tends to change. Parts that were once popular become neglected or their usgae changes over time. There are so many buildings wherever we live that have already gone, demolished. Then, as the population gets older,
New Zealand Summer Camping in the 1950s
Back in the 1950s camping was a popular way of taking annual summer holidays here in New Zealand. Not the comfort of cabins, motels or campervans of today, but setting up home in a tent at the beach for a week or two. For my family it was an economical hol
Sunday Driving in the 1950s
When I was a child in the 1950s my family would often go for a Sunday drive. We'd all bundle into the car, Mum and Dad in the front and us kids in the back . I'm not sure if there was ever a planned destination, but usually the trips took us out into the c
Scars are visible memories
I was putting some makeup on today when I saw the little scar on my left cheek. That scar represents a battle. Not with someone else but with a super infection called MRSA which I contracted in the same place twice and have NO ide
Friends of Persona Paper - end of year update
I have the great privilege of being the #FOPP clerk of the month at the end of the year, therefore I get to write the final update of 2014. Actually it wont be the final update because I have to update on the #ChristmasMemories challeng
Christmas Memories
#ChristmasMemories My husband and I met when all of our respective children were grown. At the time we had 7 children and 11 grandchildren between us. My parents and his mom were still alive. And all of these people were spread across three provinces. Se
The Ultimate Christmas Controversy - Real Tree or Fake Tree?
I grew up with real Christmas trees. I knew that there were fake ones out there, and, for a few years, my mom even had one of them in a box in the back of the attic. I asked her a few times why we never put that one up, and the answer was always t
Do You Believe In Santa Claus?
When I was eight years old, one of the older kids at school told me that Santa Claus didn't exist. I was shocked: "What do you mean, he doesn't exist? He brought me a bike last year!" "You idiot - your parents got you that and just put Santa's nam
My Last Visit to the Biltmore Estate
I just read #AliCanary's article about her recent visit to the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC (A Christmas Visit to the Biltmore Estate), and it reminded me of the last time I went. Because the estate is so popular and because the layout of
A Different Kind of Christmas
Health care is one of those fields that necessitates around-the-clock duty, no matter what the date on the calendar might indicate. The sick or infirm need care and someone to provide that care, holiday or not. As a young nurse, I wasn't pleased to have t
Christmas Memories Past
Challenge for FOPP - Christmas Memories &Melody23 provided a Christmas Challenge for #FOPP members (if you are not a #FOPP member, it's free to join and great to join in, you can see the challenge here) on Christmas Memories and &Kasman said he ha
Friends of Persona Paper December week 2 update
Well we are now into the second half of December and I figured it was about time we started our Christmas challenge. Since suggestions were not forthcoming on my first December post I figured we could start with 'Christmas memories'. Feel free to write any
Flashback Friday: Meeting Randy Orton in 2012
Yep, that's right, I met him again, and I only have 20 minutes or so before it is no longer Friday (I'm writing this out on an editor first). Things got away from me, oops lol. XDAnywho, I went with the same group of friends as the first time I met him, an
Throwback Thursday: Meeting Randy Orton in 2010
I wanted to do a little Throwback Thursday post, and since I am in a "Viper" kind of mood lol, I figured I would write about the first time I met Randy Orton. :)I traveled to Washington, DC with my friends to meet Randy at the 2010 Washington Autoshow. Ran
Business with Pleasure
Sometimes I wonder how you can manage to mix #business with #pleasure, but I guess you can. Like me, I plan to try to do that next week. I plan to have a 2 days #overnight in the city at a hotel with my daughter. Time for bonding and just to relax and go a
I’d Forgotten What It Meant to be Corded
I had to return some library books today, and made the mistake of picking up some from the free cart, along with the heavier reading I checked out. One of these books is Be Good Neighbor, and Leave Me Alone by Ashleigh Brilliant. You may rememb
