Tag Archives: childhood

Last Day of School

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Silverwynde

The yearly countdown until June was almost always unbearable. I don’t remember much about it during my Kindergarten year, but I have a few memories of my first grade year. Holy slag, did I ever want to get the hell … Continue reading →

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Busted

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Silverwynde

Over the weekend, we lost Ivan Reitman, best known for directing Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2. His son just recently took over the franchise, directing Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was fairly well received. But the original director of Ghostbusters is gone. He … Continue reading →

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From A Distance

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Silverwynde

Prime let me in on a little something last week that we’ll be getting in the near future: A Transformers story, narrated by Peter Cullen, is coming to the Calm App. You can hear a small preview of the piece … Continue reading →

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In His Hand

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Silverwynde

Over the weekend, the news broke that David Prowse had died. He was the man we saw as Darth Vader, the tall, intimidating Sith Lord in all black. I could wax nostalgic about how much his work meant to me … Continue reading →

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Brutal Honesty

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Silverwynde

When I was a kid, my mother pretty much demanded that I be honest. She wanted me to be truthful, even though every time I was, I still got punished. But I had to speak truthfully, no matter what. My … Continue reading →

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Weekly Reader: Vol 2 Issue 48

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Silverwynde

It’s time once again for news and views that you can peruse. It’s time once again for your Weekly Reader! Got some hot links, blog posts, or articles from a local paper you’d like to share? Head over to the … Continue reading →

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Weekly Reader: Vol 2 Issue 45

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Silverwynde

It’s time once again for news and views that you can peruse. It’s time once again for your Weekly Reader! Got some hot links, blog posts, or articles from a local paper you’d like to share? Head over to the … Continue reading →

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Thirty Five Years Thirty Five Thoughts #23: Words from the Wise

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Silverwynde

On March 3rd, David Wise, a rather prolific writer for the original Transformers Generation 1 cartoon, passed away from lung cancer. A major part of my childhood went with him. David Wise wrote fifteen episodes of the original series, among them was … Continue reading →

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Thirty Five Years – Thirty Five Thoughts #9: Much Ado About BotCon

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Silverwynde

It’s a journal entry that makes me see red every time I read it; on an early summer day in 1997, I wrote about BotCon. I wanted to go that year and had been planning on making it to the … Continue reading →

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Drawn That Way

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Silverwynde

I hated it years ago. I even have posts about it on my previous blog. I heard about this bit of sad news a little while ago from a different source. It’s taken me a few days to truly process this; the … Continue reading →

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