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...

I find that most of my childhood memories revolve around not only my toys, which I spent a great deal of time with, but they revolve around ...

When I started kindergarten, my lack of understanding the English language, and my status of only child made my socializing with the other c...

To say that many of my tastes were influenced by the tastes of my parents is to severely understate the obvious. I was a child raised by s...

I must have been somewhere between the ages of 3 and 4 the first time went to the Aqueduct Racetrack. It wasn't too far from the apartme...

As I have mentioned before, I was generally my mother's sidekick until I began school. My mom was never one to shirk responsibilities, a...

Before I was legitimately old enough to understand the true economic state of my family, I knew we were in no way rich. I knew by comparin...

[Preface: In previous posts I have alluded to an incident involving a set of Magnetic Batman and Robin figures. At times I come across as bi...

This is what I generally refer to as the  Saga of Decker . I obtained my Mego Decker action figure one chilly morning during one of my man...

When I was a child, my choices of after school TV viewing were pretty limited. Sure, you had GI Joe, Transformers, Voltron and Thundercats, ...

I started kindergarten at the ripe old age of 6. It was my first lone venture into the world. Okay, maybe not so lone. My mommy came along...