Memory Wipe

My family and I lived in Poinciana, a small Floridian community that was once so far removed from civilization that…

Cultural heritage isn’t passed down quite like our genes. We don’t inherit that history, those influences, the way…

It’s embarrassing how much I loved Zack Morris when I was a kid. I watched Saved By The Bell obsessively in…

I don’t remember actually sitting down and watching Honey, I Shrunk The Kids back in 1989, but I do remember firmly…

When I was a poor twentysomething writer in Chicago in the ’90s, I didn’t go to church. I instead worshipped, every…

In 1982, 18 students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles passed the Advanced Placement Calculus test, which…

There are certain milestones in a parent’s life. Introducing your child to solid food. Moving them from the crib to…

When I was a kid, my favorite toy was a portable record player, which kicked off my lifelong love of music (and…

Does anyone who saw The Secret Of NIMH as a child not associate it with being creepy? Much like The Last Unicorn,…

Now that she’s nearing the end of fourth grade, my daughter has become one of those bespectacled, bookworm types who…

I hate Austin Powers. I don’t mean Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, a movie I saw shortly after it…

There was always something that irked me about My Girl. Even as a 10-year-old, I found the 1991 film’s 11-year-old…

I was excited to try the original Tomb Raider again for this feature, but I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I…

“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state.” The opening…

In 1992, the second season of Salute Your Shorts debuted and I felt betrayed. Michael (Erik MacArthur), the…

Like most kids, I was drawn to Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales by…

Usually when I tell a fellow Doctor Who fan that my first real foray into the fandom was the 1996 TV movie, I get a…

When I was in fifth grade, my school’s teachers went on strike for a couple of months. Rather than send all us kids…

Growing up in a house where reading ruled supreme, finding time to squeeze in the all-American activity of TV…

The story is part of family lore, so the fine details are buried in the sands of time. But I know this: It was…