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My Parents Were Awesome
Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome. Send to myparentswereawesome@gmail.com with your name and the name of those pictured (or submit directly through Tumblr ). Please feel free to send a ...
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Mighty Girl — -Bill and Jane from My Parents Were Awesome -Thoughts on thank you notes. (via Swiss Miss) -Jason Kottke’s take on the FCC ruling for bloggers –see the footnotes for the post — are exactly what I’ve been thinking. (And congrats to True Ventures and Jen Bekman! Smashing.) - Designer Erin Jang’s very sweet subway map made according to the interests of her three-year-old nephew. What a lovely gift. I originally thought Jason made this, but it turns out he just found it, and ...

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Way Back When
Junior Society — ... It’s not unreasonable to think that before your parents were parents their lives were very different…it just might be hard to imagine. Enter My Parents Were Awesome, a reader submitted pictorial archive that offers photographic proof that our parents were once young…and carefree, goofy, romantic, cool and in some instances, well, hot. Feel good images that’ll send you rifling through old photo albums. Here’s a taste… ...

My Parents (Are) Awesome
Girl's Gone Child — I was going to submit this picture to My Parents Were Awesome but decided to post it here, instead. Wendelin Welsh and Lawrence Woolf, UCSD, 1976 The following winter, they married and ...

Baby Link Roundup #8,611: Que Sera Sera
Thingamababy — ... of empathy and cooperation in our species sparked when our ancestral mothers began allowing others to help rear their children. 4. Toddler joke backlash — What sort of key can’t open a door? 5. News report: Notes left behind — A tear-jerker story about a 6-year-old with terminal cancer and her parents finding numerous love notes from their daughter after she died. I have mixed feelings about the parents turning it into a book for charity, but okay. 6. My Parents Were Awesome — A great website to share a photo of your awesome parents. 7. Dysphagia ...

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