Bullies
When I entered seventh grade, the final stage was set for my parents’ divorce. I had known it was coming. I listened to their heated arguments every night when our Read More …
Category: DeKalb County Alabama Memories
Mental Scars
Long after physical abuse has ended during childhood, the mental scars remain. Physical bruises heal and fade away. The memories of those incidents, however, are often carried throughout life. When Read More …
#ThrowbackThursday (Late) Murfreesboro, TN, Tornado & Our Father
Our father passed away about four years ago due to COPD. Even though we weren’t close the last year or so before his death, I find myself, at times, wanting Read More …
If You Could Be …
Various book bloggers have interviewed me over the years. Here’s a question commonly asked, “If you could be any author in the world, who would you be?” My reply has Read More …
Trees, Trees, & More Trees (#Throwback Thursday)
You’ve probably heard the old saying that “You can see the forest for the trees’? When it came to the house we lived in growing up and our father’s tree Read More …
Throwback Thursday: (Hog Heaven, or Hog in Heaven)
I was probably 2 1/2 years of age when this picture was taken. My parents rented this house for a few months before buying our home about a mile down Read More …
Having Someone Who Believes In You
This year, 2019, my 18th book will be released. When my first novel, Predators of Darkness, was published in 2007, I didn’t know if a second novel would emerge, simply Read More …
Things I’d Never Do Again …
With age comes wisdom, or so they say. But as I near my mid-50s, I look back on things I did as a teenager that I’d never do again, nor Read More …
Bizarre Circumstances …
The first job I had, outside of lawn and farm work, was at Food World in Fort Payne, AL. Right before I graduated from Plainview High School, I put in Read More …
Throwback Thursday/Flashback Friday
Back in the days of the Polaroid. We always argued over who got the flaming hot flashbulb when it popped out of the camera. The reward of ‘winning’ was an Read More …