Retro Ramblings
Those Cups that Used to Come in Oatmeal
In this edition of Retro Rambling, I want to take you back to a small slice of nostalgia for me, and that’s back when I used to drink out of …
Childhood
Retro Ramblings
A Tribute to Nerds Cereal
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with food. I love it when it’s around, and I hate it when it’s gone. Nerds Cereal was one of those rare treasures that …
Retro Ramblings
Memories From a Hot Wheels Childhood
Some kids had baseball cards. Others had action figures. Well, I had those too actually. But for me, growing up in the late ’70s through the ’90s, nothing beat the …
Retro Ramblings
Del Monte Pudding in a Can
Every now and then, a memory sneaks up on me. Not a big one, just a flicker. A taste. A smell. A moment. And suddenly I’m eight years old again, …
Retro Ramblings
Cobra, Construx, and Christmas Chaos
There are Christmases you remember vaguely…bits and pieces, a toy here, a family gathering there. And then there are the ones etched into your memory like carvings in old oak. …
Retro Ramblings
A Rollergames Christmas
Christmas morning, 1990. I was still half-asleep, the house quiet except for the soft hum of the heater and the occasional creak of floorboards as my parents stirred. But once …
Retro Ramblings
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
There are certain holiday traditions that feel stitched into the fabric of your childhood. woven so tightly that even decades later, they tug at your heart with the same gentle …
Retro Ramblings
The Year Santa Became Real
In this very special edition of Retro Ramblings, I’m sharing a story from my childhood about a Christmas unlike any other I had known before it. It was a Christmas …
Retro Ramblings
McDonald’s McD.L.T.
It seems like about once a month, McDonald’s rolls out some new creation. Some are designed to be a short-term item on their menu, but others are hoped to be …
Retro Ramblings
Oatmeal Swirlers
I can remember almost being excited going to bed on those nights when I knew that Oatmeal Swirlers was going to be for breakfast the next day. Sadly, like so many other favorite foods of my youth, this one bit the dust far too early. …