From The Past

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Saturday, October 26, 2024

I've Been Here A Long Time...

.....It's been fun, I've made friends, I've learned things, I've grown old. You just can't get rid of me even though I have taken sabbaticals at times, I always come back. One of the fun things I do now and then is to go through some of the comments here, comments that other Blogiteers have made to... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Today I Got My Flu Shot For This Year...

.....It so took me back to the past and the way they used to do things. Did you know that they used to use hypodermic needles over and over again for all patients. This was before I was a nurse and had access to a sharps box. Actually, I was involved in nursing even before I was a nurse. In the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

One Hundred and Eighteen Years Ago Today...

.....my beautiful, loving, energetic, fun, hard-working mother was born. She lived for 89 years, had seven children, and a husband who loved her. They celebrated 62 years of married life. I never grew tired of their visits to my home after I was married and had four boys, all of whom loved them... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Tomorrow Brings Memories of the Past...

.....The only Sister-in-Law that I have ever had has passed away. Her funeral is tomorrow. She was three years younger than I, so of course I thought I would go first and was surprised and sad and filled with memories from the past. She was only 17 when her brother and I were married. Through the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Along the Same Lines...

.....I did think that it was interesting that in my old age I am ending up living less than five miles from where I was born 87 years ago. It is like I have gone full circle or something. I was born in a tiny two-room house in what, at that time, was "out in the country". Yes, I was born at home... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 27, 2024

And So, Today, On the Eve of Beginning...

.....another year of my life, I talked with Son in Florida, with Sister in Baltimore, with another in India, one in England, while sitting in my chair, without wires, looking at their faces, noting their expressions, enjoying nuances and remembering that 80 years ago I was encouraged to write a... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 26, 2024

Impossible? No, of Course Not...

.....Even in 1900 scientists were working on producing an airplane. They already knew that it was not impossible. It took the Wright Brothers to get serious about it and produce something to get it going. By 1920, a Biplane was landing in the pasture of my mom's farm home in Richmond, Mo and... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Moving On...

Only details and finishing touches the scientists said at the turn of the century 1900...."No discoveries remain to be made. And then a few curiosities came to light. Roentgen discovered rays that passed through flesh and because he didn't understand, he called them Xrays. As a too-active youngster... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

A Century Ago...Just One Hundred Years Ago...

In writing this stuff down, it is difficult for me to fathom that most of the stuff I mention was in my lifetime.....for it's close to what life was like for me as a child. A century ago, Scientists were satisfied that they had arrived at an accurate picture of the physical world....everything was... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 9, 2023

Walker & Wheelchair Fun

Kicked out! Back in the day when I was still working as a nurse, I did a stint in a healthcare center where most of the clients/patients were geriatrics, but..... most of the time they acted like "kids". So many of them had "girlfriends" there, or boyfriends and they acted more like teenagers often.... Sign in to see full entry.

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