Several years ago I applied for a job at Church of the Rock in Little Rock, AR. It was a nice job with good pay and benefits. In addition, many of the employees were “Christians” and would be more pleasant to work around. One of...

A few months after Toby and I moved into our house on Dollie Street, Toby decided that we should cut down all the pine trees in the yard. We had a company come in an cut most of the pine, but there were a few...

Raylee was often in trouble at school for fighting. Some days I dreaded for the phone to ring knowing it was yet another call from a teacher. He wasn’t a bad boy. Quite the contrary, he was usually fighting because the other students were picking...

When the children were in kindergarten and first grade, we lived in a small community outside Little Rock, AR. It was a country type setting and we often enjoyed the birds and squirrels. On our front porch we had the feeder and many squirrels happily...

To my knowledge, the first home my parents purchased was in Cave City, Arkansas. It was a grey rock home that they put a lot of love and care into. We must have moved into that house around 1973. One day, mom was outside her...

I remember my first pair of “high” heel shoes. They were Candies way back before Candie was a big name in the industry. I didn’t get them until I was 16 as my parents had a 16-year old rule for everything from shaving legs to...

Finally, I have some personal good news to report. As you may or may not know, I attended Henderson State University but did not complete all my hours to earn my B.S. degree. I did manage to “lock in” my hours by graduating with my...

I spent a great deal of Saturday teary-eyed. I was going through old photos and working on scanning and sorting, reading the kids school journals from grade school and it totally depressed me. They were such cute kids. Don’t get me wrong, they got on...

Many years ago I worked for an attorney in Sevier County. I was young and naive. Raised in a church oriented family (my dad was a preacher), I had very little actual knowledge of the world. We didn’t have television and the only “news” I...

You have to love yourself before you can love others.

I was 12 years old when my Grandma Hobbs died. I don’t remember a lot about her, but she was kind of fat and soft when you hugged her and not so tall. One day she fell down the back door steps and broke her...

Raylee and Tia were small when we lived on Summer street. They were both still small enough to believe everything they were told. We had a white refrigerator with several decorative magnets stuck to the surface. One evening as I was getting ready to fix...

Nancy was only 3-years old when our family moved to De Queen, AR. Prior to that, we had lived in Sharp County, a rural area that was farming country and primarily white population almost 30 years ago. Our move to De Queen was, for the...

Sixth grade was an awkward time for me. I wasn’t pretty, popular or athletic; but had somehow gotten the “smart” label. In actuality I was just an average child with average grades who liked to read and write. My sixth grade teacher at Cave City...