Ice Cream & Life

Good old fashioned ice with cream and sugar

Our family seems to go through ice cream in spurts.  We eat it like it’s going out of style for a month and then we’ll have ice cream that sits around in the freezer for a month and nobody wants to eat it.  I guess you could say the one ice cream flavor that works for [...]

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Ice Cream and USB Flash Drives

Just in case you’re wondering, typically, ice cream and flash drives just don’t mix. Yep, imagine a nice, sleek 32 gigabyte flash drive (one you just smarted out $149 for) and you’ve got it on your keychain, in your right hand.  Then imagine you’re at the local ice cream store (Summer’s/Bonkey’s for me – ouch, [...]

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Have You Seen the Ice Cream Man?

I don’t know how many times I heard that jangling, out-of-tune music box music emanating from the truck driving down the next street over. Living in multiple neighborhoods, with only a few years in each, didn’t help learn the ice-cream truck’s route. Plus with memories of the bad man in Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, I was always rather leery [...]

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Ice Cream is Tradition

Ice cream shows up in all kinds of family history. For my dad and his brother, ice cream was every night’s bedtime snack. My grandmother still tells the story of a young cousin who is reported to have snuck back downstairs, after hours, because she heard “ice cream noises” (As it turns out, she had good ears–her [...]

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