When my middle son was born, there was another baby boy born just hours later. It was a small hospital in eastern Kentucky, babies weren’t kept in the same room as the mother back...
The other day when I was out for breakfast with a friend, I ran into a woman whom I hadn’t seen in quite a while. She’s someone who is well known for being extremely...
A short story that I wrote was accepted for an edition of a publication called Railtown Almanac and it’s being launched this weekend during an annual event called Get Lit here in the city...
I just read an article that addressed our propensity to hang out with people who think like we do and to choose friends whose experiences mirror our own. It made the assumption that this...
Several years ago my husband and I, plus one of our sons and his wife, visited my husband’s mother at her condo in Florida. We had decided that midway through our stay, we would...
I saw a story on the National Public Radio website yesterday morning that filled me with awe. There was a strong audio component in the four minute story because after all, it was NPR...
I looked at somone’s Facebook posting the other day and saw myself being oh, so critical about an error she had made when she typed the comment. Facebook certainly doesn’t qualify as Pulitzer Prize...
The other day in the supermarket, I ran into a man that I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. We stood in the produce section catching up on things and after a while...
My sister remembers being a child and having my grandmother dolefully admonish her, “Don’t expect nothin’ from nobody, girl”. My grandmother lost two of her children — the first, a baby girl who was...
It seems to me that the art of compromise is becoming lost. I don’t know when compromise became such an unfavorable concept that some people see it as a sign of weakness. I see...
