Nature and Nostalgia
Tina Turner’s passing last week brought back a lot of memories of her and my life in the '80s. So, I’m taking a moment to appreciate all her talents. Besides the quality and power of her voice, her music, and her ability to dance in spiked heels while singing songs that swept you up, she... Continue Reading →
Feels like yesterday that I came home from work and my mother laughed saying I was making her crave donuts. Fried oil and powdered sugar clung to my hair, uniform, and shoes. It was the summer of 1985, a teen at my first job and after so many rejections I was just glad to be... Continue Reading →
Not every rock album is memorable decades after it is first released. Bat Out of Hell is one album I will never forget. The local rock station played “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” a lot in the early 1980s and my mom always cranked it up when it came on the car radio. I wondered... Continue Reading →
Photo by Element5 Digital on Pexels.com Our family memorialized food through photography. And Mom was our amateur food photographer. While the usual subject was birthday cakes, sometimes whole meals were photographed, specifically Thanksgiving dinner. The holiday with the most food and family around. While some shots were exclusively food, others had family in the background.... Continue Reading →
Karen M. Free 