GROWING UP IN LOUISA: America’s Holiday!
America’s Holiday! When I think of Independence Day, I remember from my earliest days that July 4th is the day...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Finding A Place
Finding A Place Some of my earliest memories of growing up was of times that I discovered new places. As...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Characters!
Characters! I suppose every little town has its characters. Watching Mayberry, or Andy Griffith, we see a whole lot of...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Sweet Living!
Sweet Living! Life can be sweet, don’t you agree? Like many readers who grew up in the era when life...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Ice Cream!
Ice Cream! I just read in the Lazer that a new Dairy Queen is going to open in hopes of...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Eating Out
Eating Out In retrospect, when I was growing up, I soon enough understood that money in our household was limited....
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Memorial Day
Memorial Day! This year takes the cake, my friends. When I was growing up, holidays were great time to...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Carnivals and Fairs
Carnivals and Fairs I remember a wonderful thing that happened in the summers when I was growing up. This was...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Movies, or How we learned about life
Movies, or How we learned about life When I was a child there was a form of entertainment that made...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: To the Roller Rink!
To the Roller Rink! When I was a teenager growing up in our sweet picturesque little town, I spent a...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Telephones
Telephones Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell workers in the early days were kept busy installing telephone poles and switchboards all...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Smoke
Smoke I had almost forgotten the almost hourly invasion that was visited upon us by the C&O Railway back in...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Easter, 2020, Cabin Fever!
Easter, 2020, Cabin Fever! That’s right! History is in the making right here in our lives again. No one would...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: A Dreaded Experience!
A Dreaded Experience! When I turn on the television I can see clearly that the war with C19 is on...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: First date?
First Date? First Date? I mean a ‘real’ date! Oh, we all had those little ‘pretend dates’ where parents set...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Board Games
Board Games I wasn’t very old when I saw my first game of checkers being played by some men that...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Outside Games We Played
Outside Games We Played In my professional career I have had to attend many leadership seminars which almost always included...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: After Dinner, Family Time
After Dinner, Family Time Favorite memories of growing up years were of those very special quiet times when our family,...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Refocusing in Old Age
Refocusing in Old Age Back in Louisa, when I was but a young child, my focus was on playing, eating,...
GROWING UP IN LOUISA: Floods, Events
Floods, Events There is a common saying that was based on the Bible that goes like, “Good Lord willing and...
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