Things I Miss:

 

Stax breakfast cereal

Arriving at the airport 10 minutes before my flight was scheduled to leave

My original hair color

Really good wonton soup

Watching surgery with my dad (who was an anesthesiologist)

Immortality

Dancing without caring that I didn’t know how

Eating rare beef without guilt

Imagining that someday a “collectible” might be valuable

Factory tours

Getting news from newspapers

Infatuation

Having Pluto as the ninth planet in our solar system

My Twenties

Television worth watching

Playing the clarinet in elementary school

Chemistry sets you could do real damage with

When comic books were for kids (and cost at most a quarter!)

All the files I’ve lost over the years to hard disk deaths

Caring for patients

Wink grapefruit soda slushies

Enjoying amusement park rides that spin you around

Playing bridge

Vacuum tubes

Calvin and Hobbes

Big hair

Eating saltines with pats of butter

12” by 12” cardboard record album covers