Pre-Electronic Mornings

Remember the joy of the cereal box? It had immense possibility the moment it arrived on your morning table, that rare morning when your mother did not make you eat a hot breakfast with protein.

Oh, I’m sure you remember the Bobby Sherman record I wrote about, cutting it off the back of the box and playing it? Making words out of the Alpha-Bits cereal as you consumed it? We weren’t staring at a tablet, phone, or even television. All we had was some cardboard for morning entertainment.

Well look what popped up in our pantry? This isn’t even a name brand cereal! It was just a heart-warming moment, and a puzzle for my moment of happiness.