Tag: independence

  • Walking to the corner store

    I tiptoed down the hall and peeked in the bedroom where the grandchildren slept. Eli, 10, already awake, sat on his bed. “Hey, Eli do you want to walk down to the corner store and buy something with your sisters? I’ll give you money.” “Could I go with my dad when he goes for his…

  • Now that scared me!

    I don’t scare easily. In grade school, I heard absolutely dreadful things would happen if this or that person received the national nod to be our president. Horrors! If that man was elected, we would have to go to school on Saturday! The man won – we never had school on Saturday. Shows with contestants…