Month: June 1996

I try to quit, but this 25-year habit of mothering is hard to break. Take this summer. My youngest is now 15. Everyone else is out of the home and does not need to be told to get up, go to work and be responsible. All of them have learned to take care of themselves.…

I took my daughter shopping Memorial Day weekend and said, “It’s early, but this is your birthday gift. Today I buy for you.” We shopped until we dropped. That weekend she returned from her Saturday date with her dad loaded with chips, candy and gum. She had convinced her father he should buy her munchies…

My sons like to try and punch my panic button. They succeed more often than I care to admit. Like the time I was enjoying a quiet evening in our basement family room. At the time we only had a family of sons. I was relaxing in front of the Franklin fireplace when my then…

I like to keep a book handy to read. Any ol’ book will do. I only had a dozen left to read the last day of the used book sale at Magale Library at Southern Arkansas University. I filled a couple of grocery sacks with books, including an in-depth study of the physiology of fish…