My friend and I were hanging out at her house after school and had just gone into the kitchen for a snack when her older sister walked in. “Well,” she said. “I did it.” We both looked at her curiously. “I quit school,” she announced. She…
As my sister began to close the door to the vet’s examination room, Jasper moved towards her. He looked up at her, cocked his head, and his warm brown eyes said as clearly as if the words were spoken, “Mommy, why can’t I…
Right before Easter every year while I was in grade school, my mom and my Aunt Bertie, who raised me, took me to the Hat Box for my Easter bonnet. It was located just across King Street, which Bertie always called Main Street, up two steps, and…
The chatter reached a cacophonous crescendo by the time the professor arrived for my business methods class in college. She always made a grand and dramatic entrance by walking briskly and decisively through the door, arms loaded with graded papers…
