Brainstorming my Digital Story

I pondered the last 6 decades of my life and ended up with a headache. It’s amazing how time heals old pains, accentuates the good one. I was born on Mother’s Day in 1951. I now look forward to retirement in 2017, just 4 more short years. It’s true, they say about time flying faster as you get older. I remember being 5 and waiting for Christmas and now Christmas is just a few minutes away. I honestly don’t have specific scenes from my childhood positive or negative. Those years have blended into decades. I lived in the suburbs with my older sister and younger brother, my mom stayed home and my dad was the bread winner. I was active in Girl Scouts and learned to always be prepared. Something I carry to this day.  

I am using some of my critical media knowledge and taking a cue from one of my classmate’s blog. I decided to explore digital media through the decades of my life. Did you know that in the ‘50’s the transistor radio was invented? It only had AM stations and when my sister got one, it was the ‘cat’s meow’. The ‘60’s brought the first televised Presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Nixon lost because he looked ‘sinister’. Kennedy’s funeral was also the first televised in 1964 as well as Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder. My brother got a calculator that added, subtracted, multiplied and divided and cost a $100.00.   The 70’s brought civil rights, women’s rights, bra burning and draft card burning. It brought the end of the Vietnam War and computers. We had pong, a digital tennis match. Music was on cassettes and we tries to tape off the radio. Anyone remember 8 track tapes?

I think you get the idea of what I want to do. Trying to find pictures of myself through those decades will be the problem. Nothing was digital back then. Events in the world and in my life made the person I am today. I really don’t think is a whole lot I wish to change.