tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post2714451606706025086..comments2024-02-23T02:57:43.219-08:00Comments on Postcards: Pausing a MomentMagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333086721654817750noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post-18557128453232106592011-08-16T02:53:01.676-07:002011-08-16T02:53:01.676-07:00Anything of Mum's I keep - unless it has an od...Anything of Mum's I keep - unless it has an odour.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post-38945410286336930302011-08-15T17:55:10.314-07:002011-08-15T17:55:10.314-07:00It never ceases to amaze me how things become a pe...It never ceases to amaze me how things become a permanent part of our retired lives even though they are faded, broken, no longer used. Yet they hold the key that jars the precious memories. Just a smell or flash of light and we are taken back decades.Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post-62486525887738514682011-08-15T16:54:30.002-07:002011-08-15T16:54:30.002-07:00When I returned to my parents' house after 7 y...When I returned to my parents' house after 7 years abroad, I found a lot of personal stuff I had saved in a hope chest in the bedroom. I could not understand why I had kept them. Out to the dump they all went. And guess what, I don't miss them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post-66057631736355400532011-08-15T10:10:30.585-07:002011-08-15T10:10:30.585-07:00I think such mementos are truly important as they ...I think such mementos are truly important as they are landmarks of how far we've come on life's rocky road.Kay Dennisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646717192332313215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post-47860591274902116812011-08-15T09:01:38.272-07:002011-08-15T09:01:38.272-07:00I still know how to use a slide rule for the few t...I still know how to use a slide rule for the few tasks I needed (once out of college math and physics). <br /><br />Mostly I used it for instant batting averages, but I don't follow baseball any more. And I have since learned how to use Excel, which does it all so much better. 8-)Harriethttp://l-empress.liscious.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post-13999020662473345842011-08-15T08:46:38.827-07:002011-08-15T08:46:38.827-07:00Passages....so difficult in the moment that we mov...Passages....so difficult in the moment that we move.Captain Pooliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08428392323868595583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362192907007766017.post-75329089542007194222011-08-15T08:33:21.099-07:002011-08-15T08:33:21.099-07:00I have an old slide rule. That is what I used bef...I have an old slide rule. That is what I used before the hand held calculator came around. Chuck it out. Smelly things only haunt us. The table can be refinished can't it? Dianneschmidleysscribblins,wordpress.comhttp://schmidleysscribblins.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com