Comments on: Kate Middleton wins broadsheet support

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:55:36 +0000

Gigi, perhaps my memory is fading and it was an older girl named Mary Jane who wore black patent leather shoes that reflected up.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:23:43 +0000

Fie! Arthur! We all wore Mary Jane’s when we were four and five years old, quite innocently, I assure you.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:01:59 +0000

Happy New Year one and all! I’m sorry I haven’t posted for a few days, but I was searching for John’s friends in Boston. I think the snow has driven them underground until the Spring thaw. Perhaps they will poke their heads out on Ground Hog Day to see if there will be six additional weeks of Winter.

Gigi, in my neighborhood it was a standing joke that “good girls” didn’t wear Mary Janes because the shiny black patent leather would reflect up – if you get my drift.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:11:37 +0000

My first bicycle was named “Betsy” because that was the name Davy Crockett gave to his long rifle, believe it or not! Western shows and movies were very popular when I was growing up in the 1950′s and I was such a tomboy that I loved horses and cowboys and all the western genre stuff. In our family album we have a black and white snapshot of me, dressed in a ruffled white eyelet dress with pale blue ribbon run through it, taking my first horseback ride on a gentle horse (not a pony) that was more dazzling white than my dress. As the hostler held the reins for me to mount the horse, (whose name was Linna), he said to my Mother “Madam, the stirrups will scuff her Mary Jane’s.” (shiny black dress shoes.) My Mother said “Even so.” I was four years old and I remember it like it was yesterday.