Sheils Writes
Just an 80's girl in a modern world!
Category: Nostalgia
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“What’s this?” “There’s nothing in this.” he says. “Oh, really?” I say. The box, it’s empty. I could’ve sworn I put all the gifts inside before I tied it up with that big beautiful bow. Oh wait, I did. They aren’t gifts that money can buy. That box is full of memories. Memories of years…
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I had to do some far back thinking for this piece. I wanted to capture just what it felt like to be 20 years old in 1985 on a weeknight. My weeknights now revolve around a cell phone, scrolling through Facebook & Instagram, scrolling again through Facebook & Instagram. This was not what life was…
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Some changes recently have come with some deep reflection on life as I knew it and life as it moves forward. I may not be alone in this reflection. I wanted to write it out while it was fresh in my mind – then I hope to change to a lighter blog post later in…
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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 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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So, what is holiday spirit? It’s a feeling I believe. I can’t remember the last time I truly felt the spirit of any holiday – the 2 big ones are coming up and I’m sitting here stumped on what to buy people and that seems like I’m missing the point, yet again. Many years ago,…
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One of my favorite pastimes
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Looking through old pictures I realize I don’t have any of me doing activities, I was (still am) a quiet person. Growing up I liked craft classes on a Saturday morning, laying on a lounge chair in my backyard flipping through Tiger Beat, Glamour, Mademoiselle or Seventeen magazines, swimming in the above ground pool we…
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Feeling nostalgic seeing all the back to school pics being shared. Grateful for the many I’ve found in my collection of photos from my life. I was the 3rd (& last) child. There aren’t many photos of me (last child syndrome, big sister, you know you have the most!), but I do seem to find…
Sheils Writes 