# life years ago (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover life years ago. Page: Feed: --- ## [Happy 150th Birthday, America!](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2026/07/05/happy-150th-birthday-america/) _2026-07-05 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ I haven’t been feeling much Fourth of July spirit this weekend for a lot of reasons, including Cape Town’s gray winter weather. So I decided to turn to 1926, when America celebrated its sesquicentennial, hoping to find a more festive scene.\* On the magazine covers, there was less celebrating than I expected. The Saturday Evening \[ \] ## [Children’s Books: Your 1925 Holiday Guide](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2026/01/01/childrens-books-your-1925-holiday-guide/) _2026-01-01 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ 1925 is the best children’s book year ever! Or a total washout! It depends on whether you believe the New York Times, whose anonymous critic tells us in its November 8 holiday children’s book roundup that “never since man began to make books, have there been so many and such beautiful books for young readers,” \[ \] ## [One last summer swim in 1925](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/09/03/one-last-summer-swim-in-1925/) _2025-09-03 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ August in Washington, D.C., wound down in a very un-D.C. fashion, with moderate temperatures and low humidity, a far cry from the weather in late July when I went to the DC Open finals.\* The women s final, played in the afternoon after a long rain delay, felt like a battle to see which player could \[ \] ## [Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, and Literary Beefs](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/10/virginia-woolf-jacobs-room-and-literary-beefs/) _2025-07-10 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ I realize that it’s unreasonable to sign up for the annual meeting of the International T.S. Eliot Society, followed immediately by the T.S. Eliot International Summer School, and complain that people talk about T.S. Eliot too much. I became a member of the T.S. Eliot community in a roundabout way, though, my lifelong but low-key \[ \] ## [July 1925 Magazine Covers Celebrate America’s Spirit](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/04/july-1925-magazine-covers-celebrate-americas-spirit/) _2025-07-04 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ This year, a lot of Americans will be celebrating Independence Day in a minor key. I m one of them. I m spending our country s anniversary in COVID isolation at Trinity College, Dublin, a set of circumstances not conducive to riotous celebration even at the best of times. I felt like I should mark the day somehow, \[ \] ## [The Best and Worst of the New Yorker’s First Issue](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/02/28/the-best-and-worst-of-the-new-yorkers-first-issue/) _2025-02-28 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ I grew up with the New Yorker. My family had a subscription. We had a huge cartoon collection that I browsed through constantly. My high school English teacher explained the proper way to read the magazine: front to back, skipping the cartoons and ads, then back to front, reading them. I read books like James \[ \] ## [The Top Posts of 1924](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/01/09/the-top-posts-of-1924/) _2025-01-09 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ Belated happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to the (can it be?) eighth year of My Life 100 Years Ago.\* This year s J.C. Leyendecker New Year s baby apparently just registered his new car and immediately has to repair it, which I gather is par for the course for ca. 1925 vehicles. Cars can be fun, \[ \] ## [Children’s Books: Your 1924 Holiday Shopping Guide](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2024/12/25/childrens-books-your-1924-holiday-shopping-guide/) _2024-12-25 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ Welcome to the sixth annual children’s books holiday shopping guide! I’ve just arrived in Cape Town from Washington, D.C., as I do at this time every year.\* This year, determined to avoid a repetition of last year’s kind of pathetic effort, I got an earlier start. The problem was, I couldn’t stop myself from reading \[ \] ## [A Double Rainbow of 1924 Magazine Covers](https://mylife100yearsago.com/2024/08/31/a-double-rainbow-of-1924-magazine-covers/) _2024-08-31 · Mary Grace McGeehan · My Life 100 Years Ago_ I recently went on on a trip from Cape Town to Washington, D.C., Seattle, North Cascades National Park, Seattle again, Denver, D.C. again, and then back home to Cape Town, all in three weeks. It was wonderful, but it was too much: too many airports, too many suitcases, too many weird bathroom setups. (Well, two, \[ \]