Life Stories.
Real Experience.
First-person narratives based on real human experiences. The moments that change us. The relationships that define us. The lessons we carry forward.
The Secret Behind Aunt Reba’s Chili
At 4:52 that Tuesday afternoon, three weeks after we buried my Aunt Reba, my cousin Corabeth let out a sound from the back of her... Read more
The Sea Bag My Granddaughter Almost Gave Away
My granddaughter Piper had it halfway into the trunk of Pearl Hutchins’s church van before I even knew what was happening. Fifty-two years of my... Read more
The Scarecrow Contest That Ended Our Feud
For ten years I lost the Harlow County autumn scarecrow contest to the same man, and for ten years I told anybody who would hold... Read more
The Rummage Sale Price War
I have priced a lot of things wrong in my life, but nothing like the morning I stood in the basement of Grace Community Church... Read more
The Notes On The Backs Of Mama’s Cards
The recipe box is a green tin one with a hinged lid that does not close all the way anymore, and for four years it... Read more
The Secret Dance Lessons At The Legion
The first Tuesday my husband ironed his own shirt, I should have known something was wrong. Royce has not touched an iron in forty years... Read more
The Karaoke King Of The Legion
The first time I stood up in front of that room, I was not trying to save anything. I was seventy-one years old, eleven months... Read more
The Ice Cream Truck That Brought Us Back
For thirty eight years I fixed other people’s furnaces, and the week I finally retired I went out and spent nine hundred dollars on the... Read more
The Christmas Group Chat That Brought Us Back
I am seventy-one years old and I have a flip phone in a drawer that I miss every single day. My granddaughter Mara talked me... Read more
The Gnome War That Ended in Friendship
There was a plaster gnome standing in the middle of my peony bed with a chip out of his pointed hat and a grin like... Read more
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