Once again, I’m trying to get stuff organised. This time, it’s my music. These things that were once so easy are now so very complicated. I remember clearly the first LP I purchased with my own money. Perhaps I was about 12, or 13, when I asked Mum if I could take my $8 outContinue reading “$8 worth of music”
Tag Archives: Family History
Ownership
Will you please stop fussing over what to write next, just go to the first box, pick up the next object and write about it. (Kewpie Doll was the first object.) So I did. I went to the box, put Kewpie to one side and picked up the scrunched-up paper she was lying on. InsideContinue reading “Ownership”
A useful distraction?
Where does nostalgia fit when there are so many things clamouring for our attention? Knowing and understanding history has its benefits, but at what point do the costs (time, resources, opportunities) outweigh the benefits, particularly when talking about the personal (as distinct from the institutional) collection, maintenance and presentation of family history? The washing upContinue reading “A useful distraction?”
Scanning the past
Planning is the critical phase of any project. The more work during the planning stage, the smoother the implementation. So the theory goes. Perhaps so. But the implementation is now devoid of creative fun. I heard a story that Hitchcock, a film director of remarkable note from the first half of last century, would createContinue reading “Scanning the past”
The Year of the Document
Allow me to introduce my new year’s resolution …. 2019 will be the Year of the Document. This will probably be a departure from my usual Year of format. I say ‘probably’ because one can never be sure how a Year of will turn out. What is my usual Year of format? It all started inContinue reading “The Year of the Document”
Cherrie Zell 