Don’t Come Out Until I Come to Get You
This apartment. Such good news. We don’t have to live with Grandma anymore and I can stay at the same school. “Get in here. Don’t come out. I will come and get you.” I climbed on top of the boxes...
View ArticleMusic Shapes Minds and Hearts
,A week month or so ago, Jennifer @ Momma Made It Look Easy asked a question on Facebook: “Let’s talk song lyrics. What do you do about sexually suggestive song lyrics when they come on the radio? For...
View ArticleThat Summer We Lived with Grandma
She lived 25 miles from where my mom worked, and gasoline was up to $.60. Shut up. It was the Bi-centennial. Grandpa had retired from the oil field and they’d expanded the garden. Because there were...
View ArticleGritty By Grace
When I was little, we moved off the farm and into the city and mom made me wear dresses all the time. Short ones. Remember Cindy Brady? That short. I wanted jeans. The cousin, who supplied all my...
View ArticleWith Miles to Go Before I….Sleep
While we waited at the light just before the post office, a ’78 Z-28 turned left in front of us and cruised up Washington Pike. I startled, then sighed, “Mike drove one of those…” “Mike, who?” Another...
View ArticleSomething at First Sight
At the end of the major street that split the subdivision, was a lake. Next to the lake, were ball parks, a playground with picnic areas, a golf course and a sailing club. When school was out, ball...
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