Month: April 2002

Months ago, my son invited me to join him on a three week trip to Indonesia to visit his penpal of nine years. I thought about it, but realized I needed to spend any vacation time I had concentrating on my daughter’s early summer wedding. I should have gone. His first weekend there, he e-mailed…

As the plane taxied down the run-way in Little Rock to take me to a family wedding, I glanced up and saw the El Dorado News-Times headlines two rows ahead of me. As I reached for my camera, the guy turned the page. Ever my knight in shining armor, my husband asked the reader to…

When a child whines, “Why can’t I?” quite often the answer is, “because you are not old enough.” However, in the soon to be released, “Harmful to Minors”, written by Judith Levine, a childless author with a half-baked idea, reportedly said children 12 to 16 years old are entitled to safe, satisfying sex lives. While…

I really didn’t need any more ideas, I had plenty of my own, but I thought I might pick up a few tips from the “Cater Your Own Party” class sponsored by South Arkansas Community College. The instructor, Sherri Odom, was as funny as Erma Bombeck and as laid back as Julia Child. She made…

My sisters, cousin and I always celebrated the birth of each others’ children – with long distance phone calls. We lived in three different states: Arizona, New York and Indiana, separated by miles of concrete and asphalt and the financial pinch of the budgets to tight to allow much traveling. However, miles and months of…