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I have been using Van Der Hagen Luxury soap for longer than I wish to remember. I can find it at the local Wally World for almost nothing and it pairs nicely with my Jagger badger brush. It lathers well, moistens well and does not dry out mid shave.

I can remember when they used to sell a colored piece of saran wrap to put over the TV screen to "simulate" color TV on a black and white set. The plastic had 3 stripes of color, blue at the top, green in the middle and if I remember correctly, brown at the bottom. My grandmother bought one...

Betsy Palmer passed away today at the age of 88.

I only wear 2 rings. One is a replacement wedding ring (the original was cut off by hospital staff about 3 years ago) and the 2nd ring is a simple gold and onyx ring that my wife bought for me for our 15th wedding anniversary (which I have been wearing for the past 26 years). My father had a...

Getting a hair cut and seeing your dad's hair on the barber's towel. Now I look at my hands and arms and see my father's hands and arms.

I dearly love my mother's lemon meringue pie. Unfortunately I don't have much of my pancreas left which means I am diabetic and must take enzymes to digest my food, so my current comfort food is salty cottage cheese. One must take comfort where one can find it, although on the rare occasion...

The test states that I have a Western accent. I was born and raised in WV. My dad had a mid-Ohio Valley (Tyler County, WV) accent which is quite unique and my mom was raised in the hills (Richie County, WV) and has what everyone would consider to be a thick hillbilly accent. When I am sober I...

My wife says that the spring peepers are singing, but I can no longer hear them due to deafness. I used to enjoy hearing them. I can see the grass starting to get a bit green which means I will soon have to get that old mower out and begin the weekly chore of push mowing my acre lot. I had...

Cindy, if you use wifi, make sure you lock it down. It is easy enough to do, and it prevents certain intrusions that would be unwelcome. I have always enjoyed getting a new computer. I have not had many. I usually grab an old one from a flea market and clean it up and when I am finished with...

I attended 2 colleges in the 70s. First was West Virginia University that I attended from 1970 to 1973 with a major of Secondary Education and a minor of History. I did not finish there because my father disowned me for a time because he did not like my girlfriend at the time (by the way, that...

If one does not preserve the old, our history will soon be forgotten. Perhaps my nephew may not be interested in having his great grandfather's razor and eye glasses, but at least I am holding onto a bit of my family history. I can understand the need to keep possessions at a minimum, but one...

My brother-in-law purchased a bayonet from Gettysburg, and it came with a ghost of a man who had been killed by the bayonet. I saw that ghost on a couple of times and had some interesting interactions with the ghost (that scared the bejibbers out of me).

If I had to pick a year (or two), I think it would be 1938 or 1939. I so love the music from those two years. Artie Shaw was at his peak, Benny Goodman was doing great, and Glenn Miller was starting to really kick it out. For some reason, it seems as if I have begun to relive my father's...

That is why I always carry a very nice fountain pen. When I pull that pen out to sign something, if the clerk or teller or whatever is a young person, their eyes usually almost pop out of their head since most have never seen a fine writing instrument.

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