Conversations With Kids

Aging Gently ― Recently I was talking with my granddaughter and happened to mention Howdy Doody. Her response was "who is that?" I realized she and I were worlds apart regarding television shows and actors and actresses, but especially music. Lawrence Welk is a complete stranger to her as well as Ed Sullivan. Ed Sullivan is where Elvis Presley first appeared, and they would only take shots of him from the waist up. Today there are commercials on television that would have made us blush back then., and[...]