Author Archives: David

Then:  Mary, Jane & Susan Now:  Apple, Audio & Crazy It used to be easy to tell gender by one’s name.  When I was in high school, I knew a lot of Steves, Roberts, Johns and Alans.  All of them … Continue reading →

Then:  Paper Now:  Paperless Way back when we used to have something called a Paper Drive.  Remember those?  We’d save our newspapers for months, stacking them up in the garage until there wasn’t any room for our cars. Then we’d … Continue reading →

Then:  I will see you later. Now:   c  u  l8tr I may be one of a handful of people who really enjoyed diagramming sentences.  I just loved how the words fell together in such a logical manner.   To … Continue reading →

Then:  Small, Medium, Large Now:   Tall, Grande, Venti The photos above look the same but the names have been changed to confuse the innocent.  Sometime in the recent past the small, medium and large coffee went the way of … Continue reading →

Then:   Woodstock Now:    Chicken Stock 1969 – What I wouldn’t have given to go to Woodstock.  Joe Cocker.  Hendrix.  Joplin.  Richie Havens.  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.  All my favorites were playing.  But I was too young and … Continue reading →

Then: Getting Boned Now:  Getting Boniva Not that I don’t still partake in the THEN part of this column, it’s just that “doing it” is not something I think about daily.   Not like I used to.   I used to worry … Continue reading →

Then:  The Three R’s Now:  The Three W’s When I was in young,  education focused on the three R’s:  Reading, wRiting and aRithmatic.   When you think about it, only one of these words, actually starts with an R. But … Continue reading →

I have known from a very early age that I fell into a group of individuals known as Baby Boomers.   For better or worse, our progress in life as been documented, categorized, analyzed, departmentalized and boomerized Baby Boomers play hopscotch … Continue reading →