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Category Archives: Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: What Dad was doing 25 years ago

January 16, 2014

Dad had a series of these simple, small date books through the mid-1980s. He used the books to track the …

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Throwback Thursday: Living the Dream

January 9, 2014

Another semester begins on Monday. This got me thinking about how often I’ve approached the start of a new school …

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Throwback Thursday: Grandma with camera, c. 1976

January 2, 2014

On Christmas, my sister and I were talking about Grandma Zimny’s camera. Oddly enough, I had come across this picture …

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Throwback Thursday (a day late): Christmas 35 years ago

December 27, 2013

Throwback Thursday: Art for Christmas

December 19, 2013

I loved receiving crafty, drawing-type of things at Christmas. Here’s what Bernadette and I were working on: I spent hours …

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Throwback Thursday: The Barbie Dream House

December 12, 2013

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon (I am almost 40, perhaps this entitles me?)… Is it just me, …

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Throwback Thursday: My dad cost $44.50 in 1944

November 21, 2013

This is the hospital bill presented to my Grandma Hager after my dad’s birth. The charges are laughable, are they …

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Thirty-nine years ago: November 13, 1974 (an early Throwback Thursday)

November 13, 2013

When I was one day old, on November 13, 1974, halfway across the country Ronald DeFeo shot and killed his …

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Throwback Thursday: Christmas at the Zimnys, c. 1970

November 7, 2013

A couple of years ago, Mom pulled out dozens and dozens of old slides from the late 1960s into about …

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