Ahhhhh … 1978.  Still no memories.  I turned the big “2″ this year, and one of my favorite comic strip and cartoon characters was born.  “Garfield” started off as a really fat cat, and well, he’s a little thinner, but not by much. Looking back through history’s timeline, nothing else really happened that year that [...]

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I remember about as much from 1977 as I do 1976:  Zilch. So, what happened back then?  Jimmy Carter took office, Elvis departed this mortal planet and Apple was born.  No, not that idiot actress’ daughter, but the company.  Only one of these applies positively into my life now.  I can’t stand Carter, and I [...]

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When 1976 rolled around, Gerald Ford was president, the United States turned the ripe old age of 200 and my parents welcomed a bouncing baby boy. I wasn’t around for the official USA birthday party that year, but I showed up three weeks later.  It was a Monday evening, and I came screaming into the [...]

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I mentioned in my last post that this was not about feeding my ego.  It’s about the fact the older I get, the more memories I struggle to contain.  Isn’t that what happens when we get older? I got the idea to do this from David Dollar.  I’ve never met him, but we grew up [...]

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I’ll be starting a new, lengthy project soon for this blog.  Because I’m getting older and forgetting a lot of my childhood, I’m going to go through a lot of memories and stories, year-by-year.  Each post will be a “Year in Review” essentially, except for the school years.  Those will be divided up by grade. [...]

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