Ladies of my generation may remember when Monday was Washday, the worst day of the week. It had to be the origin of the term Blue Monday.

Many people of my generation remember with fondness and sadness the glory days of the dime stores...McCrory’s, McClellens’s, Grants, Kresses and other names too numerous to mention

Once known as the most popular syndicated column in the country and written by Abigail Van Buren, we no longer have anything close to its popularity.

Including the Bible, it was the most pored over, devoured, widely read book in our house when I was growing up.