Night Terrors

April 15, 2021 · by stevetarlton | in culture, family, happiness, home, human nature, life, Movies, story telling | tagged childhood, Kenneth N. Tarlton | 3 Comments

I was always a scared kid. When my older brother and I watched the Saturday night monster movies on TV, I usually ended up behind a chair peeking through my fingers as the vampire or monster threatened the damsel in distress. My brother and I often went to the Saturday matinees downtown where he was […]

Wheaties

January 19, 2017 · by stevetarlton | in change, consumers, culture, family, human nature, Uncategorized | tagged childhood, community, money, people, perspective | Leave a comment

A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin I emptied the coins onto the kitchen table and began to sort through them looking for “Wheaties” and unusual coins. It is an old ritual, and I can’t remember not doing it — usually around the first of the year. We had several coin caches, one […]

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