Sheils Writes
Just an 80's girl in a modern world!
Category: Just Write
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I started this blog with a lot of unknowns about exactly what I would write about. I notice a pattern that I enjoy writing about ‘the olden days’ or ‘nostalgia’ topics. I feel it would be remiss of me to not write about one very integral part of my life, high school. High school was…
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Friday night, 1987, life is good for our young couple! Pete is living his best life, taking karate lessons and using sun-in somewhat aggresively. For some of my newbie readers (i.e. born after 1990), sun-in was a hair product, you sprayed it in your hair and you sat in the sun. Pretty straight forward. It…
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I can’t help but get slightly reflective on aging…an osteoporosis wake-up call, more aches and pains by the minute, slowing down for the most part…but still occasionally, wait for it … rocking out and staying up until 10 pm, yeah, you read that right! 10 pm! So let me combine this Valentines Day/rock & roll…
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I get it, it’s pretty?? I guess. I just don’t know why I personally don’t like it. My last good memory of a snowfall was in 1985 (there is 1 more very special memory from Christmas 2003 when me, my husband & 2 kids were stranded at my sister’s house on Christmas night, that was…
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You know who didn’t have Instagram? TikTok? Threads? Leonardo da Vinci didn’t have any of them. Can you picture him posting the Mona Lisa to his Instagram and quitting art because he got only 14 ‘likes’ and 1 comment, that said ‘hey bud, follow for a follow’ – he might’ve quit altogether. Any idea how…