I was searching through some old photos and stumbled upon this old 8" x 10" photo of the Class of 1984 from 5th Avenue Elementary School in East Nothport, NY. Can you find me? I could still name a couple of dozen kids in this photo but I won't embarrass them. I know one is now in advertising, another is now an architect, and one became a country music singer. I wonder what happened to the rest of them. If you found this post from a google search and you're in the photo, please post a reply.

Labels: flashback, Long_Island

I can't stand social networking websites but I reluctantly joined Facebook last month. I really didn't want to and since I have my own website, I didn't need to either. But I signed up because I just couldn't ignore the benefit of making it easier for old friends to find me. My Facebook page has almost every social feature turned off, and basically just contains a message from me to visit my personal website or LinkedIn page.

Yesterday, out of nowhere I got an email requesting to connect as a friend on Facebook. It was Scott, one of my very best friends from elementary school! Holy crap! I had gotten connection requests from old high school and college friends before, but I was pretty surprised to hear from such a good friend that I hadn't seen or heard from him since he moved away around 1983 (age 11) around 1985 (age 13). I accepted his invite and just finished sending him an email.

So many old memories. I dug out a childhood photo album which is literally falling apart and found this ancient photo from August of 1982.

Labels: flashback, friends

Patty found an old slide of her and Lore with their mother, Sharon, circa 1973 or 1974. Now which one is Patty?

Labels: flashback, Patty