"It's a poor sort of mem'ry that only works backwards."  Lewis Carroll   

'Way back in my long ago time, I use'ta wander the hills 'n the riverbank a lot…I wuzn't alone, of course, all my friends did pretty much the same thing…there wudn't any tee-vee back then…we had radio but it wudn't anything at all like radio t'day…

back then, radio had soap operas during most of the daytime…I imagine they might have had some news breaks but kids didn't pay any attention to that stuff…that hasn't really changed all that much, I guess…in the evenings, they had mysteries 'n music 'n game shows…

Anyway, we didn't have video games…..Heck!  we barely had comic books 'n they only cost about a dime back then…'course, you needed to have a dime to buy one 'n dimes were scarce 'n hard to come by…

I don't really think we missed out on anything…the kids t'day don't seem t'be having any more fun than we did…what they may have gained in material things, they don't come anywhere near having the kind of freedom that kids had back in 'the good ole daze'…..

We c'd leave the house in the morning, wander the hills 'n the riverbank all day long just as long as we got home for supper…

T'days kids don't have supper….if they have a family meal in the evening, it's called dinner 'n that's if they have a family meal at all…mostly, t'days kids seem to eat on a catch as catch can basis….pizza, sandwiches, microwave whatevers eaten standing up or watching teevee….I'm not saying that what we had back then wuz somehow better….y'know, times change 'n there ain't a thing you c'n do about it 'cept go with the flow….

"I can't go back to yesterday ~ because I was a different person then."  Lewis Carroll