Skip to content

H.W. FIELDING

  • Home
  • Welcome
  • Meet Your Host
  • Bubble Wrap
  • Living Here
  • On Writing
  • Outtakes & Bloopers

Tag: MARC CHAVANNES

HAPPINESS, HISTORY, LIFE

Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

Reading Time: < 1 minutes If it’s a toy — children and adults the world over seem to think it is — then I was probably the first kid to ever play with it. Continue reading Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingJanuary 30, 2023January 8, 2023Leave a comment
HISTORY, LIFE

The Bubble Wrap back story (Readers Digest Condensed Version)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Suppose you were a synthetic rubber specialist who is developing a lightweight, permeable, waterproof fabric. Wouldn’t 1939 be a good time to get as far from Germany as possible? Continue reading The Bubble Wrap back story (Readers Digest Condensed Version)

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingDecember 16, 2022December 16, 20221 Comment
HAPPINESS, ON WRITING, REVIEWS, SHORT TAKES

Week in Review: Week 48

Reading Time: 3 minutes Helping a friend launch her book on KDP taught her more about book publishing and me more about art. A win-win! Continue reading Week in Review: Week 48

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingDecember 3, 2022December 23, 20222 Comments
HAPPINESS, LIFE, ON WRITING

Week in Review: Week 47

Reading Time: 3 minutes Modern Thanksgivings are comic tragedies of tension, travel, parades, and commercialism. We put up with all this to focus on food and family. Where is faith? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 47

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingNovember 26, 2022November 26, 2022Leave a comment
HISTORY, LIFE, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Week in Review: Week 46

Reading Time: 3 minutes As part of my research into the back story of the creation of Bubble Wrap, I needed to connect the dots of how the two inventors met. I had a good timeline with documentation for Marc Chavannes, but not enough on my own father, Alfred Fielding. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 46

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingNovember 19, 2022November 19, 2022Leave a comment
HAPPINESS, LIFE, LIVING HERE, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Week in Review: Week 44

Reading Time: 2 minutes Research for my book and on the history of Bubble Wrap continues. Could inventor Marc Chavannes have had something the Nazis wanted? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 44

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingNovember 6, 2022November 12, 2022Leave a comment
SHORT TAKES

Week in Review: Week 42

Reading Time: 2 minutes Postponing the History Channel interview let me dive deeper into the Bubble Wrap origin story. Meanwhile, the journals show I postponed work on the play for two years. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 42

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingOctober 23, 2022October 23, 2022Leave a comment
HAPPINESS, HISTORY, HUMOR, SHORT TAKES

When is a bubble not a bubble?

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Sealed Air announced a new addition to its line of protective mailers. But despite the Bubble Wrap brand name, these bubbles presumably won’t pop. Continue reading When is a bubble not a bubble?

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingJuly 21, 2022July 21, 2022Leave a comment
HAPPINESS, HISTORY, HUMOR

It’s Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Every day is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day for the first kid to ever pop the plastic bubbles. That would be me. Continue reading It’s Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingJanuary 31, 2022January 31, 20221 Comment
HISTORY, LIFE, SHORT TAKES

Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Here’s a lighthearted view of what it’s like to work at Bubble Wrap Brand headquarters, as depicted by one of Sealed Air’s problem-solving mechanical engineers. Continue reading Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

Like this:

Like Loading...
Howard FieldingJanuary 25, 2021December 30, 2021Leave a comment

Posts navigation

Older posts

Howard Fielding's "Living Here" column ran for 25 years in The Sunday Republican of Waterbury, Connecticut. Now retired, he's still living here, online. Join him to enjoy sunsets, short uplifting essays, works in progress, special surprises, and the occasional trip down Memory Lane.

  • FICTION (20)
  • HAPPINESS (59)
  • HISTORY (64)
  • HUMOR (47)
  • LIBERTY (23)
  • LIFE (70)
  • LIVING HERE (18)
  • ON WRITING (92)
  • REVIEWS (22)
  • RHETORIC REFEREE (13)
  • SHORT TAKES (120)

#FREELIVINGHERE (22) 1957 (4) 1960 (4) 1975 (5) 1976 (4) 1978 (18) 1979 (19) ALFRED FIELDING (8) AMAZON (4) ANIMAL HOUSE (4) BETELGEUSE NY (9) BIRDS (6) BUBBLE WRAP (25) CONFLICT (23) CONNECTICUT (47) CONTEXT (15) CULTURE (12) DEBATES (7) DOYLE (6) ECONOMY (6) FAITH (30) FALSE CHOICE (5) FICTION (24) HE SAID SHE SAID (7) HISTORY CHANNEL (6) HOUDINI (24) HUMOR (25) JEFFERSON (7) JOURNAL (69) KDP (4) KINDLE (7) LAKE CHAMPLAIN (7) LEROY ANDERSON (4) LINCOLN (10) LIVING HERE (12) MARC CHAVANNES (11) MARGERY (24) MEMOIRS (5) NANOWRIMO (16) NATIONAL PARKS (5) PARABLES (5) PLAYWRITING (5) REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (7) REVIEWS (5) SERENDIPITY (8) SHORT STORIES (9) STRAW MAN (4) TELEVISION (4) TV (24) TYPEWRITERS (18) VERMONT (13) WEEK IN REVIEW (34) WORD (7) WRITING (99)

  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • January 2021
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • December 2018
  • October 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018

Creative Commons License
In Other Words ... by Howard Fielding is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. No commercial use. Republication or derivations of original fiction and copyrighted material prohibited. Original photos may be used with attribution.

Blogroll

  • Civil Eyes 321 — J.M. Gifford's blog about civil public discourse.
  • Erin Covey Creative — wedding portfolios by my favorite portrait photogapher.
  • The Bee's Pajamas — Beverly Foster Seinberg’s "random stuff from an aging Aspie brain.”
  • The Thinkers' Club – I enjoy Shekhar Dasgupta's delightful and insightful essays on this collaborative site.
  • Wild About Harry — John Cox’s longstanding home to everything Houdini.

By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time.

Processing…
Success! You're on the list.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.

My Goodreads reviews

Go to mobile version
%d bloggers like this: