Mom and I watched Supermarket Sweep every evening, shouting grocery advice at contestants like seasoned pros who absolutely knew the fastest route to the world’s most valuable ham. …
Bo and Luke vanished from my screen, and I felt the loss instantly. A kid knows when something is wrong, and a kid knows when it comes back home. …
When I think back to being a quiet tween in the early nineties, trying to figure out where I fit in the world, a handful of things shaped me more …
Mulkey Mania felt like watching the ultimate underdogs shock the world, a pair of pale brothers scoring a win so unlikely it made every kid who loved the losers believe that sometimes the impossible really could happen. …
In those years before I had a driver’s license, before I could pile into a friend’s car, blast the radio, and roam around town on New Year’s Eve like we …
I was seven years old, and nothing in the world mattered more to me than Masters of the Universe. My bedroom floor was a battlefield of plastic heroes and villains. …
When I think about Christmas on television, there are plenty of specials and sitcom episodes that come to mind. But none of them hold the same place in my heart …
There are certain things from childhood that settle into your bones, and for me, The Nashville Network is one of them. TNN was not just a TV channel. It was …
We’re coming up on the last weekend before Halloween, and I don’t know about you, but it’s supposed to be wet and cool in my neck of the woods. While …
Growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Sunday nights were the low point of the weekend, at least for me. Friday nights had that electric buzz of freedom and …
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