All those giant screens down at Costco interest me not in the least, except when my old CNET colleague Brian Cooley appears on them.
When one of my old middle school teachers discovered Facebook, one of the first things he did was to upload old photos of his prior students.
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When I asked my old room-mate and former England keeper David Seaman what his ideal game was, I thought he'd say it would be having loads to do without letting any goals in.
My father left when I was two years old, leaving her -- my mother and my grandparents to raise me.
When my parents tell me about old flames, those people are truly gone from their lives.
But when my 90-year-old grandmother died last summer, that old way of life ended forever.
In January 2011, when my 9-month-old son, Ronan, was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an always-fatal illness with no treatment, I needed a way to give order to my rage, confusion and despair, all of which compelled me to write.
The whole family has come to look forward to our Friday-night ritual, and I can see our children's religious pride in all sorts of situations, such as when my 3-year-old daughter tells strangers in the grocery store that her blankie, named Pinkie, is Jewish.
But when my 25-year- old middle son Peter shot himself in a moment of despair last April, I came full circle to the harsh reality that there are almost twice as many suicides as murders by firearm across America, roughly 19, 000 of the 30, 000 gun deaths each year.
When I suggested that my 87 year old mother in law try a portable wheelchair on a trip she had planned, she looked at me cross-eyed.
From the time I married my husband when my stepdaughter was only 4 years old, I always felt she viewed me as his wife rather than as a stepmother.
Think about your own life. 10 years ago when my son (a 9 year old at the time) wanted his own personalized Nike Shox, he went online and designed them at nike.com.
My mother's first depressive illness occurred when I was seven years old, and I felt it was my fault.
Even though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most.
When I watched my 2-year-old son fight terminal cancer and win, it put everything into perspective.
As I mentioned earlier, my father left my family when I was two years old.
My father, some of you know, left my family when I was two years old.
As Chris said, my father left my family when I was two years old.
I'd had the exact same dream about my daughter when she was 2 weeks old.
When I was nine years old, my father decided to make a major change in his career.
Oh, and I bought and sold two houses, and we had a baby which, when added to my 2-year-old twins, brings us to three kids under 3.
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So when I was old enough to ask my mother to - if I could buy (unintelligible), and she said, I could if I make the money.
"I'm very hurt and angry that someone could approach me in the street and ask me those sorts of questions at all, let alone when I had my nine-year-old with me, " she said.
My friends, when I was 5 years old, a car pulled up in front of our house.
Aside from having my tonsils removed when I was nine years old, I had successfully managed to avoid any invasive procedures. 2012 was a great year for me during which, among other accomplishments, I got to watch my daughter transform from an infant to a toddler.
Thompson writes, I was getting a little too old to make powerful enemies when I had no cards at all, and I had lost some of my old zeal that had led me, in the past, to do what I damn well felt like doing, with the certain knowledge that I could always flee the consequences.
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When I was 16 years old I went to my first professional basketball game.
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When a necessary expense comes up for my ten year old granddaughter, what am I supposed to say?
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