Remember When…

Family and friends have inspired me to start my own blog (see blogs that I follow below), as I've been following theirs for a while now. I've decided to call my blog "Remember When…" because now that I'm forty-something I feel I have a lot to remember in my life. For starters trying to keep up with all this technology – blogs, twitter, emails, voicemails, etc. – drives me crazy. I feel it takes up so much of my time these days just trying to keep up with it all, but also feel it's necessary and rely on it on a daily basis to do my work and keep in touch with family and friends. I remember when these things did not exist, when there was time to do other things. When things get too crazy I look at this photo which I have on my frig to remind me that life used to be simpler and much, much SLOWER. It's myself, my two brothers and some neighbor kids stopping to enjoy some ice cream on a summer day while on our way to The Bronx Zoo with our parents in a station wagon with no seat belts or car seats! Can you believe it and we survived, probably because cars went slower back then and everyone was not in the hurry to get where they were going like now. So stayed tuned for more thoughts on how things used to be and how we can use those times and memories to learn and grow and make our futures better – especially in these changing times with a new president to elect and the unstable economy.