Too much nostalgia can be a bad thing
Nostalgia is good in small doses but too much can be toxic because often our memories about the ‘golden past’ are simply a fantasy.
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Nostalgia is good in small doses but too much can be toxic because often our memories about the ‘golden past’ are simply a fantasy.
Nostalgia is good in small doses but too much can be toxic because often our memories about the ‘golden past’ are simply a fantasy.
“And then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you . . . .” — from “Time” by Pink Floyd I pitched an idea in 2011 to Daily Republic Managing Editor Glen Faison about doing a new column in addition to my Monday “The Last Laugh” humor column that was “kinda sorta about local history.” “Back in t
I’m staying out of the malls, shopping centres and big box stores and ordering as much as I can online. (I’m a little ashamed to admit that I ordered a Jumbo box of cereal on Amazon last week.) Shopping was never a favourite thing for me, but I got thinking of stores from years gone by.. and most of them show my age… but here were my favourites – Simpsons Sears and Eatons when I was a kid, Zellers for the diner, Kmart and Woolco for the caramel corn popcorn at the entrances. When I was a teen and could go anywhere on my own, the It Store (kind of an early San Francisco) , Sam the Reco...