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Chocolate Memories

Does anyone remember the Sky Bar chocolate bar? The chocolate bar with four distinct sections (peanut butter, caramel, vanilla and fudge) put out by Necco? When I was a little girl on Long Island and my pop worked in midtown Manhattan, he used to bring them home for us kids. Read more…


Lasagna

Lasagna, coca-cola and pig tails. These were three of my favorite things as a little one. Luckily for this little Italian girl, Easter time meant all three of these things– and a bunny head-shaped pink cake with jelly bean eyes (as seen in the distance of this picture). I often Read more…


Cinderella and Cinderella

When I was a tween watching Headbangers Ball, I internalized the possibility that long-haired metal guys could infiltrate my daily life and save me from the tedium, save me from, say, school, or an arguing father. It seemed completely rational to me that Twisted Sister might show up to help Read more…


The Path to Salvation: The Salvation Army

  Denver, CO I am an avid thrifthunter.  Apparently it was decided in the stars, as noted in Starsky and Cox’s Sextrology {Thee most spot-on description of the Libra woman I ever did read, including such accurate details as my shoe size}.  I’ve traveled coast-to-coast collecting knick-knacks and thing-a-mabobs, often Read more…


Social Medicine: Brewing Beer

When I was a kid I was confused by beer. I remember not understanding Strange Brew. I remember my parents taking me and my siblings to an Oktoberfest carnival, going down a tall and smooth plastic slide with my legs in a potato sack and hearing my Dad complain everyone Read more…