This photo below is of my dear sweet mother -- her high school graduation photo, I believe. I stumbled upon it while looking through the old photo box my parents keep in their hall closet...



I'm giving a humor speech about growing up in the 1970s, you see, and I needed some images from that time. And so a few weeks ago I was lucky to stop by the house and dug through the photos with my mother, a great bit of fun and nostalgia and even sadness... to see all this time passing and all of us moving along through life way too quickly.

This photo below is of my father when he graduated high school. I asked my mother why the black-and-white shot had red coloring under his nose. She laughed and told me that while he was away in the Army, she kissed the photo all the time. Her lipstick is what caused the red coloring (see below).

In any event, the old photo box was the subject of my column this week. Getting a bit of e-mail on it... so if you've got a moment, check out the column here. And for goodness sakes, get over to your mom and dad's and start digging through those photos.



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