Pat Kreger 6/29/20 Pat Kreger 6/29/20

Pat Kreger

When my mother died, I inherited…

Tina Marisa Rocchio 6/29/20 Tina Marisa Rocchio 6/29/20

Tina Marisa Rocchio

Quarantine brought about memories of my grandmother…

Larry Sablosky 6/26/20 Larry Sablosky 6/26/20

Larry Sablosky

I was 16 when my 19-year-old sister and I drove our aging grandparents to Florida...

Sara Marberry 6/26/20 Sara Marberry 6/26/20

Sara O’Daffer Marberry

The journal’s inscription reads, “For my Grandma: this book is yours to write whatever you choose…

Larry Gritton 6/24/20 Larry Gritton 6/24/20

Larry Gritton

When I was growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, my family went to my grandparents’ summer place…

Dyan Taji 6/24/20 Dyan Taji 6/24/20

Dyan Taji

By the time Sean had turned nine, he had survived four deaths…

Emory Schmidt 6/22/20 Emory Schmidt 6/22/20

Emory Schmidt

While cleaning out the basement recently, my wife Kris and I came across a very old and storied knife.

Allen Saxon 6/22/20 Allen Saxon 6/22/20

Allen Saxon

My Aunt Bess was a true old school nurse.

Sharon Fiffer 6/19/20 Sharon Fiffer 6/19/20

Sharon Fiffer

When I turned 7, my dad took me to the Kankakee Book Store…

Steve Fiffer 6/19/20 Steve Fiffer 6/19/20

Steve Fiffer

In 1959, I sent my hero, the NY Yankees’ Mickey Mantle, a letter…

Jack Doppelt 6/17/20 Jack Doppelt 6/17/20

Jack Chaim Doppelt

My dad came to the US before WWI…

Howard Rossman 6/17/20 Howard Rossman 6/17/20

Howard Rossman

My father loved to gamble…

Jim Dorr 6/15/20 Jim Dorr 6/15/20

Jim Dorr

Every summer in the ‘50s we would head to Brainerd, Minnesota…

Mark Larson 6/15/20 Mark Larson 6/15/20

Mark Larson

I learned to read in school…

Jim Tauber 6/12/20 Jim Tauber 6/12/20

Jim Tauber

I have saved this plastic robot since I was about 7...

Julie Cowan 6/12/20 Julie Cowan 6/12/20

Julie Cowan

As I pick out a blue pastel stick from the wooden box ...

Sue Thornquist 6/10/20 Sue Thornquist 6/10/20

Sue Thornquist

Movies have always felt very real and personal to me…

Alan Rosen 6/10/20 Alan Rosen 6/10/20

Alan Rosen

This simple cup, saucer and plate matching set is quite ordinary…

Alan Steinberg 6/8/20 Alan Steinberg 6/8/20

Alan Steinberg

April 1961, Far Rockaway High School baseball field, Queens, NY...

Jean Diamond 6/8/20 Jean Diamond 6/8/20

Jean Diamond

He hasn’t seen the light of day for years...