Every Christmas Eve we invite children from the neighborhood into our home to watch a swarthy Jordanian man dance to the rhythm of a marching band. A tradition I fear will not survive us.
Author Archives: Steve Mays
Fun with Comic Life
I’m a sucker for apps like Comic Life. Probably won’t be writing a comic book (graphic novel?) anytime soon but I can amuse myself for hours with stuff like this. Much like tossing a ball of tin foil into a chimp cage.
PlasticSurgery.com
Missouri highways are encrusted with nasty-ass billboards from border to border. Our claim to shame. Yesterday we spotted a board for PlasticSurgery.com When I got home I got curious and clicked around a bit until I found a list of procedures. A few that caught my eye:
- Body Contouring – Removes loose, hanging skin from the body, after gastric bypass surgery, stomach stapling or gastric banding (gastric bypass).
- Buttocks Augmentation – This procedure is designed to enhance the size of the buttocks. Buttock augmentation can be done by using silicone implants or fat from a person’s body, known as fat transfer (or “fat grafting“).
- Eyebrow Lift (for the person who questions everything)
- Fat Grafting – This procedure will remove a patient’s own fat to re-implant it where needed.
- Jaw Implant – sounds painful
- Forehead Lift – This procedure softens the angry or tired look caused by a wrinkled brow. Most forehead lift patients are between ages 40 and 60 years old.
- Threadlift – Although a threadlift can raise droopy areas of the brow, cheeks, jowls, and neck, it will not produce the same dramatic results as a facelift or brow lift.
John Mays
This photo was in an album my mother put together so I can assume this is a member of the family. Based on stamp on reverse, the photo was processed (and shot?) in Brookfield, Missouri, where my father grew up. He was born January 21, 1926 (in Elmira, New York) so he appears to be two or three years old in this photo. Let’s go with three.
The Great Depression started in 1929 (and lasted until 1939) and I recall my mother mentioning that my father’s family had a very tough time during those years. Like lots of folks. I don’t recall my father ever talking about growing up during the Depression. Nor my mom, except to say her family had it a bit easier because they lived on a farm and could grow most of their own food.
Their generation lived through The Great Depression and World War II. Chapters in a history book for me but day-to-day life for them. Seeing photos from that time makes it a bit more real.
Blane and Steve
Sometime in the 70s.