There’s an old saying, ‘Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’. Now you should know that horses, as they get older, show it mostly in the...

This . . . Plus this . . . Plus this . . . Plus this . . . And finally, this. Dad loved telling this story. Of his ...

George and Me. One of us was smart . . . and the other has her hair in curlers. I never was a particularly timid child. In fact, if o...

The only surviving picture of Andrew Ranching is wonderful. Most of the time. You get to spend your days outdoors, working in the pure,...

Which is more hazardous to your health? This? Or this? Two little ten-year-old girls had been given an assignment. Then ...

It'll get you! I like snakes. And it's because of my Mom's cooking. Hmmm. Maybe I'd better explain . . . I loved to wat...

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...