A personal reflection on 50s TV lamps. If we had one we were progressive—if not we’d go blind.
Her aluminum Christmas tree with a color wheel, pole lamps, low-back sectional sofas . . .
Kansas
On a 1960s station wagon vacation I discoverd a magical vending machine; it dispensed soup.
“I found vending machines.” Dad sort of grunted in an oh-good-God sort of way …
While reading about the 2022 Nobel Prize winners, I was reminded of a much simpler time.
Edith J Proctor of Peabody, Kansas wins chemistry award for perfecting library paste …
On a dark, rural Kansas road: The morning that I killed a beauty, I could have died.
I’d packed my bag the night before. Before I headed out, I set the thermostat to 80 degrees—the house would …
A million years ago and a million miles away, I received business cards printed on orange stock.
I joined McCormick-Armstrong Advertising Agency in Wichita, Kansas in the early 1980s. The agency was a subsidiary of McCormick-Armstrong printers on …
An impressive, four-tier, practical set for The Diary of Anne Frank
I couldn’t sing or dance, but I sure could cry. Picture it. Wichita, Kansas, 1968. STAGE DIRECTION: The curtain rises …
I lost my father on Friday—
Frank Brockelman, Jr. February 2, 1925 – June 6, 2014 The Brockelman brothers of Council Grove, Kansas: (left to right) …
Back in Baltimore after four days off the grid
No internet, no email, no phone.
We’re leaving Baltimore
“And it’s about time that you do,” my mother said last evening—with just a touch of sternness in her voice. …
I was a Junior Achiever
Junior Achievement, Wichita Kansas, 1966-67