Postcards – Page 40 – Blogsy Babbles

Picture This

Now, the world has never been long without big, bizarre hats, the kind that really catch the eye (and the wind.) Floppy or rigid, expressing extreme elegance or extreme zaniness, the wide-brimmed hat was worn by women who wanted to express SOMETHING with a flair. The postcard hasn’t been around long, its modernContinue reading “Picture This”

More Worries

We were discussing faded fads in our last column, considering those phenomena that blazed through the culture with such acclaim that everyone knew what they were about, but which disappeared so suddenly that it isn’t easy to figure out, years later, exactly what was going on. (Not now, Butterscotch Broth, we’ll discuss pogs someContinue reading “More Worries”

Making Lemonade

So, as I was trying to point out, before I was so rudely interrupted by a pandemic, the world is so full of wondrous things that I’m sure we should all be as busy as bees. I may not have that quotation exactly right, but that’s the way it goes. Whereas I used to sortContinue reading “Making Lemonade”