Category Archives: Growing up

Baba’s Beach Podcast #32 – Memories

Memories aren’t the full story for anyone. They are more of a highlight reel of our lives. This is probably why four people will never remember a shared event in exactly the same way.
If at all.
What we remember is more a matter of perspective about an event. How important it was. Like a green stick fracture one summer that my mum and sister don’t remember at all. Yet I clearly remember every pool, lake and sprinkler I had to stay clear of to keep the damn cast dry.
No one even signed it.
Not even my sister, who broke my wrist in the first place….
On the other hand, my own children have grown up and seem to remember a volume of events of which I have no recollection. I’m considering getting a tattoo of Eyore on my right forearm that says, “It’s all my fault.”
I figure that will cover most of the bases.

Thanks to Scarborough Dude for permission to record this from Dicks and Janes Fall edition
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Baba’s Beach Podcast #26 – And then she just exploded

It’s one of the big no-no’s to tie a podcast to one season as they can be listened to at any time of the year. So, this isn’t actually a Christmas podcast:it’s about the spirit of forgiveness which, in my … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #23 – Bombing a Better Tomorrow

Something good can be found in just about anything, I guess. Sulfadrugs and penicillin came out of the First World War; RADAR, plasticsand synthetic fuels from the 2nd. The Vietnam War brought about a revolution in technological support for the disabled–I … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #20 – The Journey

I grew up in a house that was filled with music. Despite the budget considerations of raising four children on a printer’s salary, there was never a problem finding money for a piano, a saxophone, and a clarinet for us … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #11 – Happy 17th Anniversary

Take Steinbeck, a jammed impeller, add a white picket fence, Barney Rubble in fuzzy slippers and pearls then watch the magic happen. There are a lot of mysteries in life but what makes two people get together and stay together … Continue reading

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