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In Defense of Introverts
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The Other Faces on Mount Rushmore-Part Two
Copy of The Other Faces on Mount Rushmore-Part One
Murphy's Law: Assault by Batteries
The Summer We Hope to Forget
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View from the Bottom Rung
Ridding Your Home of Two-Legged Pests
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Granddaddy's Ten Rules For Livin'
Graduation Humor
Bring Back Ben's America
Navajo Code Talkers: Quiet, Tough, Resilient
Mother's Day Letter to My Son
Mistaken Identity
How to Be Your Child's Lie Detector
Why I Hate Camping
Amazing Kentucky Revival part Two
Amazing Kentucky Revival
Copy of God Doesn't Call the Qualified; He Qualifies the Called.
A Hot Mess
Beggar at the Door
Copy of Awkward Moments
The Unlikely Connection Between Shoes, Post-It Notes, and the Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team
Ordinary People Who Changed History
Life's Simple Pleasures
Gym Etiquette 101
Peeling Off Society's Labels
Getting the Cooties Treatment
Survival Guide for the Snowbound
We Survived Play in the Good Old Days
Cousin Rufus learns Sensitivity Lingo
Thanks for the Memories
Christmas Gifts: What They Left Behind
Surviving Christmas Visits with Young Children
The Christmas Truce of 1914
Black Friday Disaster
Thanks Living at Thanksgiving
Cousin Cletus and Technology
Cousin Rufus on Feelings
Corrie ten Boom: The Power of Forgiveness
About Me
I am a wife and mom who also happens to be an English teacher and a newspaper columnist. And, I am the daughter of one of those armchair wits.
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During my childhood, as we sat around the supper table—we were country people who called it supper—our dad told funny stories about things that happened to him that day. And, often he punctuated them with comments about human nature.
It is in tribute to those wonderful insights that I offer this blog, which may make you chuckle and say, “Been there; done that.”