Christmas Memories
This isn't always an easy time of year. Actually, it can be the most stressful time of the year, can't it? Expectations are high, so fulfilling those is stressful. Memories of those gone or not present can be sad, and so much more. We begin to reminisce in the weirdest places at the most strange of times. Have you ever seen a person standing in a store with a blank look? Shopping in the grocery store (I have the strangest desire to call it a market instead these days...wonder why?), the smells and sights of various aisles...the bakery aisle always reminds me of the first time we went to the new Shop Rite on Barnum Avenue next to the new McDonald's... Just kids, we had the wildest times shopping. We hung out in the magazine and toy aisles - newly added to stores in the late 60's. Shop Rite was brand new, and the bakery was bangin'. Cookies that you could smell being baked, bread that was warm. Mom would rarely buy from there, not ...