I know we won’t go back again — There was a time when we used to dress up to travel. Heck, we dressed up to walk to the store. Sweat pants were not an option. When my childhood travel memories enter my mind, they are inevitably filled with images of being purposefully dressed up by my mother in…

Simple advice that I wish I knew in my 20s — Dreams of time travel As a woman of a certain age, it’s easy to look back over my life and think about the mistakes that I’ve made. Decades of trial and error, achievements and disappointments have coloured my perspectives on a range of real-life experiences. …

Why was the family holding a car frame while running? — The “Modern Stone-Age Family” elicits many questions On the heels of The Brady Bunch and Other ’70s Shows: I Have Questions, it became crystal clear that I wasn’t the only one who needed answers. …

Why following the popular trend may be more trouble than it’s worth — Suddenly, everyone has to have one It came out of nowhere. Then seemingly, this term — “side hustle” — was everywhere. It was the must have endeavour for any determined and ambitious worker. It didn’t matter if you were freelancing or working for “The Man” — a side hustle was going to let you escape the…

And there were many… — Shiny and new So many of us had them. You know, the chain around our necks, holding the most-important item required to end a long day at school. Or perhaps your particular jam was “freestyle,” meaning you’d carelessly throw it in your pocket, your knapsack or any other place that it could immediately…

They never did Burn, baby burn! And boy, did we ever. Burn. On the metal slides. Back in the day. Yes — if you grew up in the 60s, 70s and even some of the 80s, you know of which I speak. Playground fare back then included all manner of dangerous “play” things…

In case you weren’t sure, this 80s hit TV show reminded you — weekly — “We’re rich and you’re not!” There was an odd phenomenon in the 1980s. Everything was big. Excess was everywhere. Big hair, big shoulders, big dreams. And as Gordon Gekko so eloquently said, “Greed is good!” This philosophy permeated popular culture in a manner that has, thankfully, not been seen since. The celebration of lavish, ostentatious…

Let’s hope not. Recognize this Family Room? Of course you do. Don’t we all? Those of us of a certain age spent many a childhood day here, even if it was only through the television screen. Regardless of whether or not you dig the decor, it was de rigueur back…

If you’re lucky — Out of Gas Good grief, the price of gas is crazy, isn’t it? A brief look at the cost of filling the tank these days is enough to make the driver keep driving — that is, of course, if they didn’t keel over from sticker shock first. The obsessive checking of gas prices…