My childhood might as well have been a catalogue for Topps. I collected them all: baseball, movie, comic, video game... If a card set ...

At nine years old I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the only toy that could possibly bring me pure bliss would be a Transformer. ...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been a Wrestling fan. I blame my father for this, as I blame him for my life long love of the Y...

Like most children of the late 70's and early 80's, I was in thrall of Robin Williams' quirky character, Mork. Mork and Mi...

My family was a bike family. As a toddler I had the common red and white radio flyer tricycle, which I spent much time using as a scoo...

I received my first library card during a kindergarten field trip that my mother served as a chaperone on. Until then, my mom was unaware of...

In 1976, I arrived ready to play with toys society did not want me to have. I am a girl, and as such it was dictated I play with baby ...

In the late 1970's, my dad took a second job working at JFK airport. He washed pots and pans in the food service department for Luftha...

I've mentioned in passing how as a child, my parents and I would routinely visit our extended family in South America. It seemed to me...

I was a bicentennial baby, so it can be said I was patriotic from birth. Born in 1976 in the city that never sleeps, with formative years at...

Pictures from CollectionDX...check them out! I must have been between the ages of 8 and 9 when my mother decided it was okay for me to...

(Or how a Ken doll became a bicycle for my sister) Although it seemed my parents had a Catholic priest waiting in the delivery room to...

Being the only child at family get togethers was a double edge sword. Sure, I received all the attention to begin the day, but that als...

I was 14 years old before I ever set foot into a Toys R Us. Before then, the closest I ever came was passing the multi-colored sign on the...

Like every child in 1980's, I had a Cabbage Patch Kid, courtesy of my Uncle Joe. The interesting thing about this fact is, I never...

The year was 1984, and I was an 8 year old caught up in the Michael Jackson craze. There was no escaping the mania. Thriller was *the* alb...

I received my very first official Barbie doll on my 6th birthday. It just wasn't Barbie. It was Skipper, her little sister, but I did...

The 1980's was a great time to be a little girl. The selection of girl toys with cartoon tie ins seem to be never ending. You had Straw...

1986 was a great year to be a New Yorker. The Statue of Liberty was turning 100 years old and that Fourth of July was set to be the best eve...