Barbara Lockard, retired marketing director for Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, has published a book “Chapel Veils, Cough Drops and Queen for a Day,” with a subtitle “Being a kid in the 1950’s.”

The Findlay resident’s weekly blog, launched in March 2020 “Old and Slow and Turning White,” met with favorable response among her Findlay friends, Mother of Mercy High School alums and other blog readers.

At the start of the “great quarantine” she writes that she decided her choices were to either go stark raving mad, or write about better, happier times. She chose the latter.

And, with this she collected her most popular posts, compiling them in the 117-page book.

Her readers will confront questions including:
• Were you a daredevil bicyclist in the 1950s?
• Did you collect pop bottles?
• Did you lick Top Value Stamps and help the nuns fight the communist menace?

Answering these and other questions, Lockard humorously re-visits her childhood on the west side of Cincinnati.

“I hope this book give readers a few laughs and maybe jars some memories of your own dysfunctional childhood, wherever it was,” she says about her book.

Among chapter titles include:
• Growing up – Cincinnati 1950s
• Trick or treat, smell my feet
• There’s a different between “Karen” and Kvetching!
• Five things I’d like to see in the Internet of Things
• Products of the Past Should Stay in the Past

The book is available on Amazon in a Kindle edition and paperback. Click here to view ordering details.