Friday Photo Flashback

I know Christmas is over, but my neighbor still has his lights out, so here is a Christmas photo for this week's Friday Photo Flashback. Christmas 1980. What you have here is 10 year old Keith. (Good Lord, it's Christmas! You'd have thought I would brush my hair!) I am holding the cribbage board that … Continue reading Friday Photo Flashback →

Friday Photo Flashback

Welcome to the first Friday Photo Flashback of 2023. Every once in a while I will be looking for a particular picture and stumble on another. That is the case with today's featured picture. I came across it while I was searching for a picture from yesterday's blog. I truly do not know a lot … Continue reading Friday Photo Flashback →

Cast the Movie of Your Life

The Word Press App on my phone will offer a daily writing prompt to bloggers. I subscribe to a few "prompt" emails and such, and they can certainly be thought starters. Today's prompt was one I had considered before and I may have even been asked a similar question by a Facebook friend. The prompt: … Continue reading Cast the Movie of Your Life →

Has it really been 40 years?!

The man in the picture above is my grandpa. He was my mom's dad. In February of 2018, I blogged about him in the following blog on his birthday: https://nostalgicitalian.com/2018/02/17/i-only-got-11-years/ As I was going through my Facebook memories, I realized that it was 40 years ago today that he passed away. It was the first … Continue reading Has it really been 40 years?! →

Gone Fishing

The back lake - Caseville One of my favorite fishing jokes comes from Soupy Sales: Two guys are out on a boat fishing and one guy is pulling in all the fish. His fishing buddy hasn't had even a nibble the whole time they've been on the lake. So, he asks his buddy what his … Continue reading Gone Fishing →

Time. Life. Death. Ripples.

The longest song I ever played on the air was Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie which is just over 18 minutes long. We played this on the classic rock station (and sometimes on the oldies station) every Thanksgiving. To those who love the song, it was the perfect length. To those who hated the song, … Continue reading Time. Life. Death. Ripples. →