I am still enjoying everybody's stories - it's never too late to join the party?

rehak wrote: I'm wondering where my Mom's Brownie went. That camera took great pictures.

I am late to this party.
My mother taught me to sew on my grandmother's 1923 Singer treadle that my daddy motorized. I did not take home-ec in school for that reason.
I did garment sewing until the quilting bug hit.
My career was as a Registered Nurse for 37 years. For 35 of those years, I was employed by the Federal government and worked in the same VA hospital. The majority of time was in administration. The last 14 years was as night supervisor. I did not know how stressful my job was until I retired six years ago!
I started quilting in the '80s and that was my source of stress relief. I had control of that fabric.
I have been married to the same man for 43 years and we has one daughter, who has a chemical engineering degree and MBA. My mother lives with us. She will be 99 next month. She was a woman ahead of her time because she was 33 when I was born and she worked at the same place for 45 years. She believed that a woman should be able to support herself. That's the reason I went to college, the first in my family.
Mama learned to quilt after me so she quilted all my projects. (My daddy said it was to keep up with me!) Now she has arthritis and I have lots of UFO's.

This topic has been fun. Thanks everyone and especially Margo.

I have my mother's Brownie camera from when she was a kid.

Nancy

Jo Jo ,
My daughter still has a Brownie camera, just as a nice thing to look at, just like the old Singer sewing machines they were beautiful to look at.
Anne

My first camera was a brownie! I have fond memories of it and took it all over our travels as a family.
Now as for names - I have lived all my life with a misspelled name. Jeanine should actually be Jeannine with double n, but my mother forgot where the double nn went when she was registering me at the Hospital for Foreigners in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil where I was born. It is a French name meaning little Jean coming from Jeanne. I have too often been called Geanie or Jenny and nowadays am no longer shy to correct everyone who mispronounces my name.

Jeanine

You bet !!

I would love to share pictures, but I lost everything I owned from my younger days in a fire at my parents home. Pictures are the toughest things to lose.

P.S. And, I owned a Brownie camera -- anyone remember those???

clhdabb wrote:

I will defer to JoJo on this one. I personally have nothing historic--I guess we had cameras back then for stills, but pictures that moved???? I'm not so sure And the phrase "wide angled lens" keeps popping into mind when I think about what would be required today. I'm pretty sure they would shut down this site if I uploaded something. But, let me check...yep, I can still do a belly roll. As a matter of fact it's easier. Although I may be confusing undulations with harmonic motion.

Belly dancing is great fun. I had to give up when we did loads of spins and I got dizzy. Just loved the dressing up and the different styles. Can we have some pictures of you all in action

Wow, so many belly dancers! I agree with the "too stinkin' cool" comment

BTW, Charae is a gorgeous name, and your dance teacher was mental to not like it!

Names are very interesting aren't they? We were all called after saints - and my brother had the misfortune to be given Mary as a middle name. This was quite common in the 50s here in Ireland. When my youngest brother arrived in the 60s we all petitioned my mother to leave Mary out of his name which, thankfully, she did. We were upbraided regularly for not living up to our saints names. Self-mortification and stigmata were never my thing though!