Pauline Baird Jones

  • Transport of the Future?

    When I was a little girl, dreaming of the future, I imagined space ships and flying cars ala The Jetsons. More Magic Highways, like those depicted in this Wonderful World of Disney episode from 1958. The video is 49 minutes, but you can jump to the “future” around 39:00 (though I highly recommend pausing around…

  • Do You “Heart” Disney, too?

    I wish I was there, sitting on one of those rocks. Even though the adult me knows they are hard, even with the “cushion of age” on my tush. And that stretching a swim suit over that cushion is…well…yeah. I blame it on Walt Disney. Think about all the things his movies made seem magical…

  • Are You Old Tech (like dirt) or New Tech?

    My friend, Diana Beebe of Mermaids Don’t do Windows, blogged last week about trying to undo what she learned in typing class, back when we used to double space after typing a period. This reminded me of a blog post topic I’ve been mulling far longer than was actually needed. Technology in books and film.…

  • Where Perilous P is From…

    Jenny Hansen of More Cowbell  blogged about “How Do you Know where You’re from?” in August and she did such a lovely job with the meme, that I decided to give it a try. It’s much harder than I thought it would be! So here is my “where I’m from…” I’m from homemade bread, from black…

  • 1955. It was a Very Weird Year

    Thirty-five years ago today, I was in the hospital giving birth. While that child deals with the trauma of turning thirty-five today, and perhaps has cake, I will be bracing for my own birthday tomorrow. Oh, don’t think I’m unhappy about turning older. Oh no, my birthday  bracing is more along the lines of, “What…