In a list of significant movies of 1948, So Dear to My Heart hardly makes the cut, and doesn’t even merit a full page on Wikipedia, but for me, a girl living on a farm in northern Canada, it was spectacular. True, it was the first movie I had ever… Read More »So Dear To My Heart-The Movie
In the summer of 1959 I discovered a book, Bonjour Tristesse that radically altered my idea of relationships. Françoise Sagan, a young eighteen year old author, spoke about what it felt like to give yourself over to love, in this case, not a lover, but her father. Hers was an obsession… Read More »Ships That Pass in the Night – Relationships We Have Lost
It was a wonderful time to be young—and crazy about fashion. It was 1956, and I was seventeen. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Rita Hayworth were regulars on the cover of popular magazines. Audrey Hepburn was larger than life in the movies. They were beautiful, slim and famous. I did… Read More »Crazy About 50’s Fashion
Millions of thoughts and images pop in and out of our minds every second of every day. These are, or soon will be our memories—some recent and some from long ago. As we grow older, long-ago memories become dimmer, and some may take on the qualities of a dream. We… Read More »The Value of Our Memories
They had the best of all worlds. How will we remember them? They belong to the generation of people born between 1926 and 1945. The world events that most defined them were the Great Depression of 1929-1939 and World War II. They occupied a unique place in history: They watched their parents… Read More »The Lucky Few—Where Are They Now?
The lucky few are those of us born between 1926 and 1945. If that includes you, WWI bypassed you, and you came of age just in time to miss WWII. But that’s only part of it. You were the first generation to be indulged as children, you became teenagers just as… Read More »Who Are the Lucky Few?
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