Those are frameable - and significantly cheaper than Cezanne or Renoir’s still life onion paintings. If you do an image search for ‘still life onions’ it’s rematkable how many there are, yet I actually prefer these botanical studies from the seed packets to any of the impressionists’ onions. These make me cry… Read more

But have you seen the Red Onion Guy from the Wethersfield farmer’s market?

I don’t recall what I sat in as a baby, but as a tot in the mid ‘80s, I have fond memories riding around in this thing. It was more like a booster seat, but the lap belt secured it in place and closed. No LATCH system needed. I had plenty of freedom to look out the window or whatever.

I rode in a car seat around that time. Mine looked downright sensible compared to those things.

We had the “Bobby Mac” that’s #1 in the picture. I sat in it until my baby sister was born. Then she “got” to sit in it. My mom had a TR7, so I got moved to the back where the roof would have been stored when the top was down. Read more

We went to visit my grandparents one state over when my brother was toilet training, over 50-odd years ago. There wasn’t room in the car for both his car seat and potty chair so the potty chair became the car seat for John. Read more

These are from the owners manual to my 1968 Olds Cutlass:

The ones my siblings and I rode in were this basic system, but brown vinyl on white buckets with chromed steel framing. From the ToysRUs brand, complete with Geoffrey on them. Fit well in the back of the 1976 Toyota Corolla. That was 1981-1986 for us.

There is a picture of me when I was about 3 years old sleeping on a pile of jackets and quilts in the back seat of my Grandfather’s Willys station wagon in about 1970 or so. We had been up hiking in the forest around Mount Saint Helens, and I was a tired little tyke. It was a long drive back home. Read more

I was wee in the mid-80s and my parents had a Caprice Classic station wagon. The front seats were a bench that had a cloth arm rest between the driver and passenger areas that could be lifted out of the way and tucked seamlessly into the seat back. My entire childhood, I believed that that arm rest was a kids’ seat… Read more

If you were born in the 60s, you rode around in seats like this.

As someone who was a child prior to the introduction of these seats, here’s what preceded it: babies/infants were held by an adult, but once one had achieved toddler status, you were postioned as any grown person: “Sit still!” Read more

This picture actually looks a lot like pictures I have of my Mom from the mid 60's. (She graduated high school in 1965.) Minus the off-the-shoulder nightie of course, but same blue eyes, same blond hair, and a very similar smile. Mom never was a reader for pleasure though, which is interesting because my Dad really…

First and foremost, Kelly, you look lovely.

I grew up in the 60s. Everything was “racy” but in a very PG way. Read more

My grandma busted my dad in the 60s for having a racy covered copy of a book by Sartre under his bed. It always irked him that he got in trouble for what was ultimately false advertising. Read more

Some shaping foundation, blush, eyebrow shaping and lipstick - you could do a lot worse with these 2 hour youtube makeup tutorials I can’t be bothered with today.  Read more

I think of Myrna Loy as the ultimate 30s face, but let’s face it she was gorgeous in any decade.

I am all for the safety pin in the glasses. Read more

My grandma was born in the early 1910's, so all of this is what she grew up with. When I was a kid I remember her pointing out an actress who “drew a white line down her nose” to narrow it (grandma was way ahead of the game on contouring!). She also complimented my legs, and encouraged me to keep my full eyebrows… Read more