I'm so excited! My bestselling ebook has become my newest print book! ESSENCE, hits the shelves today!!! " Todd's dad, a fa...

Shop class was for learning. Woodcrafting, metal work, welding, automotive. These were the things that should occupy the young men’s...

Contraband! Mervin stared at the tell-tale pile of orange peels. Then, at the  large, strictly-forbidden, freshly-peeled, plump and ...

Warning: Use with caution... “Gramma! Can we make some popcorn?” Words so innocently uttered. So casually agreed to . . . Some...

Mom was Frugal. Notice the capital ‘F’. She was raised during the Great Depression and squeezed every nickel till the Queen’s eyes bu...

Me. Occasionally, when Mom got tired of driving twenty miles of dirt roads for everything, my parents would move the family to our town...

Me and Golly Gee. And yes, that is a band aid on my nose. Sexy! I learned two things that summer. 1.        Barbed wire gates are trick...

The nose is okay. The teeth . . . Okay, yes, I had been told never to do it. In fact, I had been threatened with certain  death  pun...

When I was four, my parents had a TV. A wonderful, marvellous creation that stood on its own four legs in one corner of the living room...

Okay, this is as gritty as I get . . . We were having dinner with our good friends. Lots of talk. Tons of laughter. And some eating...

“Gaahh! Mom! You’re standing in the lava!” Mom and Dad had taken us kids to see the movie ‘Krakatoa, East of Java’. (Okay, yes, I know...

I can only dream. I’ve never been able to grow corn. The planets are aligned against it. Why am I thinking of this in the middle of...

School is memorable for so many reasons. Friends. Enemies. Sports. Life lessons. The occasional chance bit of education that slips ...

This says it all... Two years in the planning. Check. Savings gone. Check. Cruisewear purchased. Check. Flight to Sant Maartin. Che...

Ready for anything . . . My Husby loves to travel, It’s just the way he is, North or South; East or West, The world is truly his....