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- Remember When We Weren’t On All These Mailing Lists?
- Remember When We All Ate Peeps?
- Back to the Future, Forward to the Past
- The Day of Default
- Untitled Entitlements
- Remember When Socrates Got the Covid Vaccine?
- Remember Going Out for New Year’s Eve?
- Remember When Planes Flew Somewhere?
- Remember When All Ice Cream Was Real Ice Cream?
- Remember When the Trial Subscription Was Really a Trial?
- Remember When You Knew Where Your Photos Were Stored?
- Remember When You Could Eat Inside a Restaurant?
- Remember Your First Zoom Meeting?
- Remember When You Did Not Have to Wear a Mask?
- Remember When Kids Went to School at School?
- Remember When You Didn’t Have to Sanitize Your Cheerios?
- Remember When This Avengers Movie Wasn’t Everywhere?
- Remember When People Kept Grain in Grain Silos?
- Remember When You Weren’t Asked to Rate Every Experience?
- Remember When Live Entertainment Was the Only Entertainment?
- Remember Retail Stores?
- Remember That Mysterious Space Object?
- Remember When We Didn’t Need A Planetary Protection Officer?
- My Slogan Was Published In the New York Times!
- Remember When We All Had Chips Surgically Implanted?
- Remember When You Could Vote to Leave the European Union and Not Regret It?
- Remember When Everyone Wasn’t in Contact With the Russians?
- Remember When Antarctica Wasn’t Falling Apart?
- Remember When You Could Fire the FBI Director Without Getting a Lot of Flak?
- Remember When the President Lived at the White House?
- Remember When It Seemed Like Christmas Was Far Away?
- Remember When There Wasn’t All This Hacking of Emails?
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Remember When People Proofread?
- Remember When It Was Safe to Eat Processed Meat?
- Remember When You Couldn’t Reconstruct a Rat Brain?
- Remember When People Didn’t Grow Plants on Their Heads?
- Remember When You Had Never Heard of a Leap Second?
- Remember When You Couldn’t Get a Head Transplant?
- Remember Shopping on Black Friday?
- Remember When People Read Poems on Halloween?
- Remember Smallpox?
- Remember When You Could Send a Spaceship to Mars for Only $75 million?
- Big Announcement
- Remember When the Internet Was Anonymous?
- Remember When Your School Got Its Own Tank?
- Remember When the World Cup Wasn’t On?
- Remember When People Did Not Put Pictures of Their Kids on Facebook?
- Remember When Virtual Reality Was More Virtual Than Reality?
- Remember the Cold War?
- Remember When Extinction Was Permanent?
- Remember Privacy?
- Remember When Delivery By Drones Was Not Within the Realm of the Possibile?
- Remember When the Affordable Care Act Wasn’t In the News Every Day?
- Remember When the Government Wasn’t Shut Down?
- The Yom Kippur Post
- The Rosh Hashanah Post
- Remember When You Could Twerk and Not Cause a Worldwide Scandal?
- Remember When Restaurant Service in France Was Gruff?
- The Private Universe of Shopping Carts
- Remember When Stores Couldn’t Track You Within the Store?
- Remember When Luggage Didn’t Have Wheels?
- Remember When You Needed a Cell Phone to Record Someone in Public?
- Remember When You Didn’t Have to Create a Profile Everywhere You Go?
- Remember Spring?
- Remember When There Was No Pope?
- Remember When Smartphone Protectors Weren’t A Cottage Industry?
- Remember When the Toilet Worked, Part I?
- Remember When Football Was Dangerous?
- Remember When You Had Never Heard of a Fiscal Cliff?
- Remember Twinkies?
- Remember When Black Friday Took Place on Friday?
- Remember Election Night?
- Remember Life Before Catastrophic Hurricanes?
- Remember When Interest Rates Were Positive?
- Remember When Debates Involved Debating?
- Remember When I Started This Blog?
- Remember When News Was News?
- Remember High Top Sneakers?
- Remember When There Were No Zip Cars?
- Remember When You Didn’t Have to Swerve Around People on Bicycles?
- Remember the Olympics?
- Remember When There Was Only One Type of Post-It Note?
- Remember When There Were No Interactive Graphics?
- Remembering My Aunt Helen
- Remember When Playgrounds Were Dangerous?
- Remember Life Before Greek Yogurt?
- Remember Being 13 and Drunk?
- Remember When There Weren’t All These Crasher Shows?
- Remember When There Weren’t a Million Types of Water Bottles?
- Remember When You Had Never Heard of Austerity Measures?
- Remember Mad Cow Disease?
- Remember William Shakespeare?
- Remember When You Didn’t Have to Worry About Online Tracking?
- Remember When You Could See Around Most Vehicles?
- Remember Trapper Keepers?
- Remember When Sugar Wasn’t the New Cocaine?
- Remember When We Were Slaves in Egypt?
- Remember When the Police Couldn’t Track You With Your Cellphone?
- Remember When There Weren’t All These Mediums?
- Remember the Etch A Sketch?
- Remember When You Didn’t Hunger For The Hunger Games?
- Remember When You Didn’t See Those “26.2” Stickers On Cars?
- Remember Julius Caesar?
- Remember Renting Movies At the Video Store?
- Remember the President’s Fitness Test?
- Remember When Television Programs Didn’t Have Animated Promos For Other Programs?
- Remember When There Weren’t All These Fitness Devices?
- Remember What Made You Fall in Love With the Movies?
- Remember When Mr. Coffee Was the Only Coffee Maker?
- Remember When No One Cared Where Their Food Was From?
- Remember How You Used to Celebrate Valentine’s Day?
- Remember Whitney Houston? (A Tribute)
- Remember When People Didn’t Have Cameras in Their Cell Phones?
- Remember Life Before Super Bowl XLVI (46)?
- Remember When Pitches Were Just For Movies: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference (Part 3)
- Remember When Genre Was Genre: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference 2012 (Part 2)
- Remember Life Before Memory Sticks: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference (Part 1)
- Remember When Television Screens Weren’t Measured in Acres?
- Remember When You Could Buy Things Without Being Asked to Write a Review?
- Remember When People Were Quiet in Libraries?
- Remember When You Couldn’t Buy Things Online?
- Remember When There Weren’t Any House Shows?
- Remember Old Fashioned Hand Dryers?
- Remember Elementary School Teachers?
- And Now, A Few Last Minutes With Andy Rooney
- Remember Trick-or-Treating on Halloween?
- Remember When You Didn’t Have to Worry About Identity Theft?
- Remember When There Were No “TIPS” Jars?
- Remember When Roommates Were Random?
- Remember When Cough Syrup Wasn’t a Controlled Substance?
- Remember Liner Notes?
- Remember When Life Wasn’t Consumed by Facebook?
- Remember When You Had Never Heard of a Debt Ceiling?
- Remember When People Read Only Physical Books?
- Remember Telephone Books?
- Remember When We Didn’t Have Piles of Chargers and Power Cords?
- Growing Old With Derek Jeter
- Life Without the U.S. Mail
- You’ve Been Sued Via Facebook
- Remember Your First Summer Job?
- Mash-Up, June 11: Graduation
- Of Ice and Men
- Is Your Dad Embarrassing?
- Staying Sane at Chuck E. Cheese’s
- Mash-Up, June 4: Kristen Lamb, How to Write Funny, Paul Johnson
- The Facebook Page Neurotic
- From Seditionist to Blogger
- Remember Happy Meals?
- Mash-Up, May 28: David Bouchier, Clay Morgan, Leanne Shirtliffe
- Why the iPhone is Perfect for Writers
- How I Started Blogging
- Remember Using Paper Maps?
- Remember Action Figures?
- Remember Lunchboxes?
- Remember Typewriters?
- Remember When It Was Fun To Go To the Movies?
- Remember Playing Board Games?
- Remember When Video Games Did Not Feature Flying Body Parts?
- Remember When Wishing Someone a Happy Birthday Was Not Done Digitally?
- Remember Y2K?
- Remember Wearing Fanny Packs?
- Remember Napster?
- Remember When Containers Were Easy To Open?
- Remember When Drinking Was a Novelty?
- Remember When People Passed Notes in Class?
- Remember When You Could Go To the Supermarket Without Being Offered Something You Didn’t Want?
- Remember When URLs Did Not Change?
- Remember When You Weren’t Offered A Rewards Card at Every Store?
- Remember When Memory Was Not the Hottest Topic Around?
- Remember Your First Answering Machine?
- Remember Audio Cassette Tapes?
- Remember When You Could Bring Lip Gloss On An Airplane?
- Remember When Airplane Meals Were Included With the Price of the Ticket?
- Remember Choose Your Own Adventure Books?
- Remember Voltron?
- Remember Writing With Pen and Paper?
- Remember When You Could Not Instantly Settle Arguments on the Internet?
- Remember Garbage Pail Kids?
- Remember Snap Bracelets?
- Remember When Garbage Was Garbage?
- Remember When Cameras Used Film?
- Remember When It Was Cool To Bend the Bills of Baseball Caps?
- Remember Non-Electric Toothbrushes?
- Remember When People Shoveled Their Driveways With Shovels?
- Remember Playing Hangman?
- Remember When We Did Not Have To Remember A Million Passwords?
- Remember the Year 2010?
- Remember When Car Headlights Weren’t Blinding?
- Remember When Kids Drank Soda?
- Remember When Snow Was Fun?
- Remember When There Was a New Post Here Every Day?
- Remember When People Ate Apples?
- Remember When Only Infants Had to Ride in Car Seats?
- Remember When Playgrounds Were Not Made of Plastic?
- Remember When Computer Printers Printed on That Paper That Had Perforated Edges With Holes?
- Remember When “You Can’t Do That On Television” Was On Television?
- Remember When People Listened to CDs?
- Remember When You Didn’t See Christmas Decorations Until After Thanksgiving?
- Remember When We Got Dittos Instead of Photocopies?
- Remember When Plain Cream Cheese Was the Only Cream Cheese?
- Remember When Ronald Reagan Was Elected to a Second Term?
- Remember When VCRs Were the Thing?
- Remember When Fruit Roll-Ups Were Popular?
- Remember When Cell Phones Did Not Exist?
- Remember When Email Did Not Exist?
- Remember When People Did Not Walk Around With Bottles of Water?
- Remember When No One Had a Peanut Allergy?
- Remember When The Term “Surround-Sound” Did Not Exist?
- Remember When “Starter” Jackets Were Popular?
- Remember When “The Clapper” Was A New Invention?
- Remember Box Drinks?
- Remember Spelling Bees?
- Remember “It’s 10 O’Clock – Do You Know Where Your Children Are?”
- Remember When People Watched Sitcoms?
- Remember When You Could Pass a Stopped School Bus?
- Remember When Sliced Bread Was Uniform?
- Remember When Kids Rode Their Bikes Without Helmets?
- Remember When Beavis and Butthead Was a Popular Show?