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...
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...
It was another long, winter afternoon with everyone stuck in the house and the four McDonald children were at it again -- bickering, teasing, fighting...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A little boy walked down the aisle at a wedding. As he made his way to the front, he would take two steps, then stop, and turn to the crowd, alternati...
I saw her last night for the first time in years. She was miserable. She had bleached her hair, trying to hide its true color, just as her rough front...
I have lived in my neighborhood for twenty years. It seems to me that I’ve spent at least ten of those years looking for a lost pet, either mine...