It was fifty years ago, on a hot summer day, in the deep South. We lived on a dirt road, on a sand lot. We were what was known as “dirt poor”. I had been playing outside all morning in the sand.
Suddenly I heard a sharp clanking sound behind me, and, looking over my shoulder, [...]
We prowled through the second hand bookstore the day after Christmas, just my husband Louie, our daughters, Jenny and Helen, and me. This was a precious time for us. We would be splitting up as a family in just a couple of days. It had been a tough eight months since my husband had retired [...]
