I was married three times before I was seven years old.My older brother Gary performed the ceremonies in our basement. Gary was good at entertaining t...
It is cold, so bitter cold, on this dark, winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp. I stand shive...
I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our s...
A couple invited some people to dinner. At the table, the mother turned to her six-year-old daughter and asked her to say the blessing. "I wouldn...
After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack on the tennis court, my world crashed around me. My six children were 10, nine, eight, six, three a...
I've often felt that "step-parent" is a label we attach to men and women who marry into families where children already exist, for the s...
The crayoned picture shows a first-grade boy with shoebox arms, stovepipe legs and tears squirting like melon seeds. The carefully printed caption rea...
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.For my grandchildren, I’d know better.I’d really like for them...
Fox River gave life to the country town of Colby Point, for the road and the river ran alongside one another. Colby Point was really the name of a roa...
I’ll never forget Easter 1946. I was fourteen, my little sister, Ocy, was twelve and my older sister, Darlene, was sixteen. We lived at home wit...