Tag: nostalgia
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Home
I recently took an unscheduled trip “home” to the USA. The quotation marks are needed because my concept of home and what it means has been drastically altered by twenty-plus years living overseas. And if you think my concept of home is messed-up, you should talk to my kids! But that’s a different post. Home…
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Take me back to bologna and ketchup
Every once in a while, it’s good to go back to your childhood and remember what it was like. For me, that’s bologna and ketchup. Perhaps that doesn’t sound too appealing, but bologna played a big part of my childhood. It’s cheap. It’s meat. (Does it ever go bad?) It’s the most unoffensive meat available,…
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More Silly Things to Write About: Tabs
I suppose it’s part of getting older – reminiscing about one’s earlier years – comparing life of today to what it was like when you were a kid. Boy, I sound just like everyone’s parents sounded about thirty years ago. The cycle recycles the new into the old and the must have, must talk about,…
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The Return of the Vietnamese Bean Cake
It’s funny how a simple treat from the past can download a whole heap of memories into your consciousness. Have you ever eaten Vietnamese green bean cake? This stuff takes me back. A friend, stopping by Malaysia coming from Vietnam, picked this up for my family. When we lived in Haiphong from 1994-1997, we…
Author Mark W Sasse 