My best friend, Cocoa, and I live in a senior-citizen apartment complex in a lovely small town. Cocoa is a ten-year-old poodle and I am a sixty-nine-y...
After Fred Astaire’s first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, can’t act! Slightly Bald! Can dance a...
A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read Puppies For Sale.” Signs like that have a way of attracting small children, and sure e...
I slouched down in the passenger seat of our old Pontiac ’cause it was the cool way to sit when one is in the fourth grade. My dad was driving d...
It was another long, winter afternoon with everyone stuck in the house and the four McDonald children were at it again -- bickering, teasing, fighting...
It was the day before Thanksgiving -- the first one my three children and I would be spending without their father, who had left several months before...
was a single parent of four small children, working at a minimum-wage job. Money was always tight, but we had a roof over our heads, food on the table...
She is my wife, my lover, my best friend. For over fourteen years, our marriage has endured and grown. I can honestly state that after all this time t...
One cold evening during the holiday season, a little boy about six or seven was standing out in front of a store window. The little child had no shoes...
Grandpa Nybakken loved life -- especially when he could play a trick on somebody. At those times, his large Norwegian frame shook with laughter while ...