July started once again with Christine’s 5th birthday party at Patti’s. Followed by Maddie’s 4th party in the Harders’ backyard in Baltimore. We have a discrepancy here because we also went to a summer birthday party which Barb also thought was for Maddie at the Harder’s house. I’m not so sure, but haven’t figured out …
Our New Year’s girl at home, ready to party like it’s 1999! We don’t have any other photos so I suspect the was a New Year’s Eve spent at home with Dick Clark rockin’ the countdown on TV. Barb notes this is a nightgown that Grandmom made Allie. Grandmom was especially proud of the smocking …
At the end of September, 1991, Barb and I made a special pilgrimage to Disney World, staying onsite at the resort for the first time, and combined it with a three-day cruise to the Bahamas. One of Barb’s dream vacations was to go “first class” to Disney World as an adult. We decided to do …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971. These five years, as I aged from 8 to 13 in Florida and New Jersey, were pivotal in forming my personality, memories and tastes. …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. Note: I think it may be interesting to consider which events of each year — political, cultural, music, movies — actually made an imprint on me. These are things that go beyond the photo album memories of the other posts. This effort is aided …
Photos from several untitled albums, the next in the series. Bill did one that covered 1978-1983; Barb did two over the same period. In February of 1978, we decided to take another shot with a cat. Ziggy was an orange tabby with a very patient disposition who put up with my long learning curve. He …
Photos from my album “For My Babe’s Anniversary: The Continuation of the Story So Far” and Barb’s untitled albums covering the same period. After leaving Hong Kong in August, 1976, and before heading to Georgetown, I went down to Miami to visit Laurie, David and their new daughter, Maggie. Barb was able to join us …
This post is based on an album I put together in 1976 or so called “Bill – The Story So Far,” supplemented with photos from an album that my Mom put together for me about a year later and some photos we found in Mom’s stuff after she died. This post covers our time in …
These are photos from an album I put together in 1976 or so called “Bill – The Story So Far,” supplemented with photos from an album that my Mom put together for me about a year later. Short Hills, New Jersey For the record, I was born March 28, 1958, when we lived in Short …
Once I got to college, summers opened up and there was the prospect of internships. Pretty much the whole time I was in college I viewed it as a sort of minimum security prison sentence — a period you had to get through in order to actually start working and making money. I was always …