James (Jimmy) Byron Young   Jimmy was a year younger than many of us in our gang and was not...

Winter’s Big Freeze One year I remember that we all felt the effects of the Polar low that pushed down...

Happy New Year! Maybe its old age, but I don’t recall much about New Year’s Eve celebrations before the advent...

Christmas Memories Memories of Christmas of the past are more about the excitement that built up to and defined this...

Christmas is Almost Here! (First a note of explanation: I sent an article in to Mark last Thursday, two days...

Christmas is Coming!    Black Friday may have come and gone, but the shopping season is just heating up! The...

Pulled Pork For some reason I got into the Christmas spirit while having a bite to eat at the Smokehouse....

Marriage Suzie and I have been busy during the days but in the evenings, after supper, we have begun what...

Happy Thanksgiving! This week we will be celebrating a holiday that is meant to recognize the blessings of a good...

Grocers Since this column is about memories, it stands to reason that most of what I write about are from...

Wake Up! It’s Veterans Day   Thinking back, I’m pretty much of the opinion that mankind is constantly faced with...

Restaurants Eating out!  This is a declaration everybody likes to hear. It was indeed a rare thing for my family...

Barber Shops I remember only three barber shops in my little home town. Maybe there were more but this brain...

News stands When I recently grabbed a magnifying glass to see some details in a picture of the Bargain Store...

Filling Stations Recently, I stopped to fill my gas tank up with gasoline during my commute to work. In keeping...

Department Stores Out of a sense of fairness I feel compelled to write something that starkly contrasts with the writing...

Hardware Stores There’s an unwritten theory (until now) that sometime before our birth but while we were developing in Heavenly...

Corduroy Roads, Bridges and Things People my age made it into the world at just the right time. We saw...

Old Cars It’s kind of a funny thing, you know. I have never seen myself as a ‘car guy.’ What...