Retirement Memories

Seniors and "The Green Thing"
You'll remember this!  Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good ...

Memories: The Death of a Son  The Script

It wasn’t yet nine o’clock on that Sunday morning that Kerry died. People would wonder why anyone would be calling at such and odd hour....

Memories: The Chocolate Cherry  My father was a cab driver for 60 years in New York City, (Manhattan). He was a very hard worker but never was paid very much money.

You must remember,...

Memories: Chicago Train Ride  I am going to share about my train ride when I was a little girl going to Chicago on a train. This was a luxury to go into Chicago in the first place. I ...

Retiree Asks: Do You Remember?   Remember - hopscotch, tag, baseball (never had any girls to play so we played with the boys in the alley), roller skates with keys, scooters, marbles,...

Memories: A quiet evening  A quiet evening at home.

After visiting with friends that lived across the street I decided to go home for a quiet evening alone.

My drive way ...

Memories of the 50s  Sandra Lee Smith Triggered My Memories

I was reading Sandra Lee Smith's Memories of the Good Old Days, and the good old memories in my head were set ...

Growing up isolated in Alberta Canada  I grew up in a very isolated environment and have written an autobiography about it. I am looking for an agent or publisher to whom I can submit.

I ...

Retired and Writing "MEMORIES" at Age 81  The story I am writing about my life is in progress. I am calling it "Memories" and hopefully my children and their children will enjoy reading it someday....

My Memory: Took A Small Nibble Out Of The Big Apple  'O7 I took a small nibble out the Big Apple, And immediately, we fall into the tourist trap and don’t regret a minute of it. Absolutely no way one ...

Thanksgiving Memories  Let's share some Thanksgiving memories here! Just hit COMMENT below and add your two cents!

Do you have a great memory about cooking Thanksgiving ...

Memories: Double Summertime 
During the war, so that farmers could make full use of the daylight hours, the clocks were put forward two hours in the summer months. It was ...

Times they are a changin!  Recently my sister and I took a trip by Go Bus over to Toronto, Ontario. I am 71 & my sister is 74.

Everywhere we looked, people had cell phones attached ...

The Job Jumping Trucker  I suffered from what I called "The Grass is Greener Syndrome".

Back twenty years ago trucking jobs were more than plentiful. If for some nit-picky ...

Retiree Memories: Blue Hawaii '50s Style  Our friend Anne said, “You’ll cry when you leave Hawaii. I’ve been there three times and I cried each time I left.”

Anne and I share a common bond of ...

Grandfathers Love  When I think of the moments we shared, I feel warmth and happiness. I sometimes go back to feeling sad, depending on what moment in particular I had been ...

Grandfather, the rural letter carrier  Growing up in the 50s and 60s, down South. I lived on a farm out in the country and was brought up by my Grandparents.

My Grandfather was a rural letter ...

A VINTAGE FRIENDSHIP FROM 1950s ....  The incident that I narrate here happened in the early 1950s. I was about 10 years of age at the time.

I lived in Daraganj, a densely populated locality ...

I Remember...  I am not a retiree but I am 50 and I always wanted to write about growing up in my town in the 60's and 70s.

I am on face book and I met up with friends ...

Life Story on my Parents  I am in the process of writing my life story on the computer under the guise of writing about my father-mother-stepmother and their relationships.

I ...

My Memory  I remember when...

Well..I forgot it now..

It's A Small World   “ IT’S A SMALL WORLD “

To bring you up to date, I was born in St Petersburg Florida at Bay-front Medical Center (FNA) Mound Park Hospital on August ...