Category Archives: nostalgia
Fragmentary Fisher-Price
Fisher-Price made toys that I know I loved despite infantile amnesia. Children generally cannot remember events from before the age of three and start remembering things consistently around the age of four. We adults can access fragment memories, which are … Continue reading
Standard 8 Memories
For some time I have been mining my family’s photographic archive for weekly remembrances which I post on Facebook and sometimes expand into posts on this blog. There have been times that I recalled that there was an old home … Continue reading
Divided Loyalties
Sooners or Cowboys? In Oklahoma, one is often expected to take one side or the other in the rivalry between its two largest institutions of higher education: the University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU). I am bemused … Continue reading
Normal School
Traditional teacher preparation has cratered in Oklahoma, which saddens me since I and the 2,663 students I taught from 1989 to 2017 benefited so much from my choice to major in education back in 1986. When I enrolled at the … Continue reading
Rattling Around
March 2024 | Photo Album Table Rock Lake, in far northwestern Arkansas and southwestern Missouri, was completed in 1958. My parents purchased a tiny vacation home near its western end a decade later, in a county with many ties to … Continue reading
