Month: March 2015

Necessity forced my mother to pile all five of her children into the family car with her when she went to town that day. We stayed longer and later than she anticipated. Lunch time came. In an era of few fast few places and not a lot of extra money for eating out anyway, my…

Wait for it … wait … wait for the other shoe to drop, because inevitably it will. The headlines and Internet chatter all scream for the legalization and increased use of marijuana, and I sit here waiting for the other shoe to drop. Sure it relieves some physical discomforts, but … no one knows the…

I noticed her immediately, the petite, white-haired woman wearing a hospital air-filtering face mask and blue plastic, household, cleaning gloves. She bent over the eight-foot-long tray of a table sorting through its collection of odds and ends that had not sold at the Goodwill stores around the state. Evidently she did not want any germs…

Winter and snow days have consumed the family Facebook feeds – especially the pages of families with children under 10. First it was the winter birthdays. The newly-minted seven-year-old in Missouri knew exactly how she wanted to spend her birthday money. She wanted make-up. She bought, she tried and her mom took pictures of a…