No Chicken For Me Please

When I was around nine or ten years old, I lived in the small town of Theo, Mississippi with my grandmother, and two of my younger sisters. The town was only a few square miles in size, so we could …

The Ghost In The Closet

I attended a small country school when I was young. There were eight grades in the two-story, brick building, but the basement held the restrooms and the lunchroom and kitchen, supplies, and other miscellaneous things. The second and third grade …

Grandma And The Old Clock

More memories from my school days at Gift are still rattling around in my head. This time we go back to Kindergarten. The first grade was not in the same building as the second through eighth-grade classes, and the Kindergarten …

Wheel Of Misfortune

I believe I was four, or five years old at the time. My sister was sixteen months younger than me. We were playing outside by a tree in the side yard of our humble little home in the small town …

Bitterness

Allison was four years old and was complaining about a stomach ache. This went on for a few hours as her parents tried several things to alleviate her pain. When their efforts had failed, and Allison was not feeling any …

Memories Of Days Gone By

Long ago and far away, there lived a family of five. A Mom and a Dad, two boys and a girl, and of course, a cat, and two dogs. We can’t forget them. It seems like only yesterday, but it …