This was my favorite photo of my father…

Among my possessions that my two sons will inherit…

Living in a small town…

Over the years, I’ve had to…

Have you ever been transformed by…

In the 1950s little American boys…

Nostalgia doesn’t just live in the past.

My family was mad for “Peanuts” cartoons.

I loved, and will always love, Snoopy.

To have in my possession…

In fourth grade, my music teacher recommended…

For almost twenty years…

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

My favorite White Sox lefty…

I have no memories of my Grandpa Roberts…

I wind and set the brass ship’s clock.

When I was 6 years old in 1956…

When I was growing up in Glencoe, a bedroom suburb north of Chicago, I didn’t quite fit in….

I’ve been vindicated by a movie!