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Greensboro, NC After School
Walking home with my friend Sinh, we'd listen to different music we had. We both shared a love for blink-182, and often sang their songs with or without the...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Whoa ! Freedom Feels Good
A much heavier time in music history for me, this was very diverse but I kind of appreciated the lyrics for what they spelled out: freedom ! I was involved...
Read Memory Rockwall, TX Here is the song
Going away to college was, naturally, a huge transition. I had been raised in a strict Catholic household, and I had kept every curfew and done every chore I...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Winter break-60 hours of Freedom
I was thrilled to spend a few days almost completely alone at the dorm before my family could meet me at grandpa's house about 85 miles from the college I...
Read Memory Riverview, FL A Thank You to The Eagles
Over the years of my life there have been many artists that I have enjoyed and that I count among my favorites. I could never rank them in numerical order,...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Rub Hearts not just bodies
This memory thinks of the song and time for showing love, to be all wrong because it is not exclusively the touching of the 'prison' that the genie is locked...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) My son and I
When I was a teenager, my parents did not have too strict a deadline for returning after going out at night. However, they did have a few rules, which at the...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Home is where the engine purred
Flippin' through station after station and not being satisfied with the salsa, or the mamba or any reggae, hubby number two needed rock, anything as long as...
Read Memory Riverview, FL Pride and Passion
The first time I heard this song, I had to pull over in a parking lot as the tears fell freely and chills ran up and down my spine. Patriotic songs always...
Read Memory Crawford, NE Patriotism
This song, written, after the 9/11 incident is a clear, graphic scene of the aftermath of 9/11. Although, I do not know, personally, anyone who lost...
Read Memory Prague Punching Timeclocks in the Nose
Was it a scene in the Travolta film Urban Cowboy where I first hear this song? Or was it because it got so much radio play in the late 70s and early 80s,...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Me is Good
Was it really over and could I really be me all over again? Yes, the divorce papers were signed and I was going over there to get the last of my things. I...
Read Memory Ogden, UT Freedom on the Road
I first heard this song while driving alone at night from The Grand Canyon to Salt Lake City. It was the return journey on the first solo road trip I had...
Read Memory Riverview, FL Off the Deep End
My parents came from large families and raised a large family. My siblings were already on their way to having sizeable families, thus when I married I...
Read Memory Boulder, CO An Endless Summer
When I graduated from college, I didn’t do what most kids do. I didn’t get a job in my father’s company, and I certainly didn’t...
Read Memory Kansas Cruising on the Bikes
My husband has always ridden motorcycles. He loves the freedom of being on the road. When I started dating him, I quickly was bitten by the motorcycling bug....
Read Memory Stowe This Mighty Freedom
I know many people who are married. Many who are in love. I see the struggles they weather. I see the new lives they create. I see displays of affection. I...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Before Baez
This song has been around for awhile and I vaguely remember any solid memory after 1982 that this song would of evoked; however at a camp I was enrolled to...
Read Memory San Francisco, CA Driving Alone
I’ve always been a solitary person. While I love spending time with friends, I often get the greatest pleasure just being alone with my thoughts....
Read Memory Iketown Dear Benazir
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today, December 27, 2007. When people stand for something new, it scares people who cling to something old. What's...
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