...or something similar... I don’t know where he got it. And I'm certainly am not surprised things turned out the way they did. ...

What do I remember? Warm hugs and cuddles. Clean clothes, clean sheets, clean house. And wonderful, many-times-a-day food. Stori...

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

I always was afraid at night When Mother would turn out the light, Into the darkness, I would stare And look for  monsters  waitin...

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 t...

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  pu...

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

April 1. Daddy's birthday. He would be 95 today. I hope they have cake in Heaven! Remembering you today and every day, Daddy! I love ...

“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...

A large, prestigious college had a large, prestigious hall, And through its doors came visitors. It welcomed one and all, A bright, ...

There is not much happening today that we could call ‘normal’. Normal has become merely another word that belongs to the distant past ...

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

She was supposed to be raking leaves. But you know how an assigned job can be forgotten. Or an assigned worker . . . sidetracked. I ...