When I was growing up, I was skinny.

I was always a head taller than anyone my age, including the boys, but I was proud of being thin. It almost made up for being too tall.

Everyone in my family was heavy. I flaunted my thinness in front of them…

I started college in 1977. Since I grew up in a pretty conservative town in the South, the only people I knew back then who had a tattoo were sailors.

Ok, I think my cousin had one, but I don’t think he was ever a sailor. …

Some of us have been with our husbands for a long time. In my case, it’s 29 years. After a while, couples fall into a routine. You understand each other. You feel annoyed occasionally, but you learn to roll your eyes and get over it. After all, you do love…

I am a wife, a mother of two sons, a sister, a daughter, and a retired teacher. I’m finally fulfilling my lifelong dream of writing. I don’t know if I’m any good or not; I know that it brings me joy to tell a story.

I keep wondering if anyone…

My next-door neighbor could’ve been considered a hermit. In the twenty-plus years we were his neighbors, I never saw anyone visit him. If you knocked on his door, he wouldn’t answer. If you called him, you had to leave a message and let him call you back.

Once, he let…

A young co-worker stopped by the library while I was working one day. She was excited about getting married, and somehow the subject of her mother came up. She mentioned that her mother was not involved in the wedding planning because they were estranged.

I just looked at her sadly.

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It doesn’t take long to know horse hockey when you hear it!

At some point in our lives, we will run into people in the world who would rather tell a lie than the truth. …

When some people speak of lawyers, there is always a little bit of disdain and the phrase “ambulance chasers” comes to mind.

I’ve met some top-notch lawyers in my time, but then there are those who will say and do anything to get their clients off.

For instance, a defense…