Archive for January, 2010

Computer Problems in Paradise

Hi! Steve here. My mom longed for you to know that she’s carrying resource tribulations down in Florida and won’t be able to make a post this week. She writes: My resource is still not operative – in a future got a Comcast workman that set up a operate call for me – not until THURSDAY – [...]

NOT YOUR FATHER/YOUR FATHER POST…also featuring a skirt we wish to get tied together in

This is Joy, Emily Materick’s mod-erific mom on a London steer in the late 60′s . This is NOT Emily Materick’s father…But he sure seems saccharine on her. Emily’s mom was a heartbreaker with her own hand-made stylishness. “She sewed her own mini dresses and had all the most in vogue hairpieces. She lived in England [...]

Vidya’s story

When Kiran Keeshan sent me this pattern of her mom Vidya, you knew you had a genuine badass mom on my hands. The primary tip off was the tan juvenile pleated polyester dress joined with a handle tanned hide leather belt and over-sized goggle glasses.The second and sure pointer of winner: not only is she fibbing on [...]

If we similar to pina coladas

Anne-Marie Kovacs’s mom Suzanne makes me reckon of that song. And that’s a excellent thing. The year is 1965 (songster/Songwriter Rupert Holmes is still a drifting teen) and Suzanne is basking in the Laurentians intent in Quebec, Canada with little some-more than a integrate of grains of straw to cover up her parts. Hello, hip-accentuating [...]

Craigslist Emails

Last weekend, you was struck with the provoke to purge. After cleaning out the hint of an really aged four-drawer filing cabinet, you place the sideboard up for sale for $30 on Craigslist. Within an hour, you viewed no fewer than 10 responses to the ad. Here are my favorites: “I do not expostulate but [...]

My Parting Gift

I just got at a back of to Philadelphia after spending the past 3 days in California for my grandfather’s funeral. My grandfather lived a full, outstanding reason up and it was a fantastic apply oneself and boon to be able to extol his reason up with my extended family. you come from a unquestionably immeasurable family and this [...]

Traveling West

Emily West emailed this incredible pattern and wrote: “Attached is my mum, Hilary West, in Wales, 1972 you reckon, and a stylishness icon!” In a follow up email, Emily’s father adds: “Couldn’t establish some-more but may not have used the same terminology. Mum was twenty-two it was 1973 and the imitation was taken on a [...]

My Mom, The Explorer

Between 1956 and 1959 Duncan Innes’ kin trafficked around the star on a motorbike. With £200 to their name, they picked up rare jobs to stay afloat and scratched their debate zeal for twin being honest. They ventured from Europe, down by Africa, across to Australia and New Zealand and then across the mild to [...]

Lazy as well as Crazy

I have a balmy symbol for Christmas leftovers. Try as you might, you just can’t crop up to keep my hands out of the 90% off bins at Michael’s and A.C. Moore. On Saturday afternoon, you found myself land 3 gingerbread kits and a stew facsimile set. “I have to have these,” said the voice in [...]

Another Saturday night

Ryann McQuarrie-Salik’s taboo Canadian 70′s mom is to this red dress……as Tony Manero is to the dance floor