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Tag: 2020

The Music of My Life – 2020-2025

Last May I began this feature. Today, I will finish it off by looking at 2020 through the present. As I got closer to the end, it became difficult for me to pick ten songs from each year. Proof of this will be evident from this post. The songs that I featured each year had … Continue reading The Music of My Life – 2020-2025 →

nostalgicitalian Uncategorized 3 Comments April 16, 2025April 10, 2025 4 Minutes

Hindsight Really is 2020 – A Recap

The saying goes, "Hindsight is 2020," and many of us are rejoicing that 2020 is really truly behind us! I often wonder if you were to make a list of positives and negatives of the past year, would one outweigh the other? What about 10-15 years ago? Was that just as bad, but we only … Continue reading Hindsight Really is 2020 – A Recap →

nostalgicitalian Uncategorized 2 Comments January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 5 Minutes

Endings and Beginnings

"What feels like the end is often the beginning ..." I will be the first to admit that this blog is more appropriate for the end of the year. However, with the events of the past few days (which I will elaborate on in a future blog), it weighed on me to write these thoughts … Continue reading Endings and Beginnings →

nostalgicitalian Uncategorized 4 Comments December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 2 Minutes

Shake It Up!

I didn't feel it, as I was driving in to work, but Michigan had an earthquake today. I guess it happened close to 7pm and was a magnitude 3.2 earthquake. Some friends of mine downriver posted about this on Facebook. I remember being at my grandma's house one summer and feeling the ground shake a … Continue reading Shake It Up! →

nostalgicitalian Uncategorized 1 Comment August 22, 2020 1 Minute

Reflecting on 2019 …

As the year draws to a close, I have pondered about what I wanted to write about.  Some of the blogs I follow have posted "Year End" Top Ten lists featuring their 10 most read blogs of the year.  Others have written rants about the old year, and posted resolutions for the new year.  Yet … Continue reading Reflecting on 2019 … →

nostalgicitalian Uncategorized 3 Comments December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 6 Minutes

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  • Friday Photo Flashback – Freberg
  • Great American Songbook Saturday – My Buddy
  • Song Lyric Sunday – Too Much Thyme On My Hands
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  • Tune Tuesday – Days Like This
  • The Truth Hurts
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  • Book Recommendation – Voice-a-Versa
  • Friday Photo Flashback
  • Turntable Talk #51 – Singly Under-Appreciated
  • Great American Songbook Saturday
  • Song Lyric Sunday
  • Sadness At The Drive In (A Tweaked Summer Rerun)
  • Movie Music Monday – Life of Brian
  • Tune Tuesday
  • ZZ Top is Beard-less … Sort of
  • Life’s Little Moments
  • Overdue Update
  • Friday Photo Flashback
  • Great American Songbook Saturday – I Got Rhythm
  • This Hit Me Hard
  • Song Lyric Sunday – I’ve Got You Under My Skin
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  • Movie Music Monday – Police Academy
  • Tune Tuesday – Jo Dee Messina
  • See You On the Other Side, Dolly
  • Life’s Little Moments
  • Book Recommendation – Everyone In This Bank Is A Thief
  • Funny Memory
  • Friday Photo Flashback
  • Make Life Better With These
  • Great American Songbook Saturday – Stardust
  • Song Lyric Sunday
  • Movie Music Monday – The Music Man
  • Tune Tuesday – Canon in D
  • Welcome to September! (A Reblog)
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  • Book Recommendation – Caller Unknown
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  • Great American Songbook Saturday – Blue Skies
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  • Movie Music Monday – A First
  • A Birthday ReBlog
  • Tune Tuesday – Brimful of Asha
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  • Gene, Gene, the Genome Machine
  • Friday Photo Flashback
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  • Turntable Talk #52 – Feels Like The First Time
  • I Have An Idea – Yes or No?
  • Movie Music Monday – Cocktail
  • Tune Tuesday – Sad Eyes
  • Life’s Little Moments – A Look Back at the Week
  • Book Recommendation – The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria
  • TV Theme Thursday – #50
  • Friday Photo Flashback
  • Mini-Series Recommendation – All The Light We Cannot See
  • Great American Songbook Saturday – Ebb Tide
  • Song Lyric Sunday
  • Music Movie Monday – Ghostbusters
  • Tune Tuesday – Vieni Sul Mar
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  • TV Theme Song Thursday – #49
  • Book Recommendation: Five Minutes, Mr. Byner
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  • I Missed It…
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  • Book Recommendation: The Mysterious Mrs. White
  • Song Lyric Sunday
  • Movie Music Monday – Pitch Perfect
  • Finally – Solitude
  • Tune Tuesday – International Coffee Day
  • Another Busy Weekend
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  • TV Theme Song Thursday – #48
  • I Wish I Knew Who Wrote This
  • Friday Photo Flashback
  • Book Recommendation – A Deadly Episode
  • Great American Songbook Saturday – My Blue Heaven
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