Someday Never Comes
A dark chapter excerpt from my memoirs when I was about thirteen years old: Alcoholism had been a key factor in my parent’s divorce, and our mother’s addiction didn’t end Read More …
Category: Fort Payne
If You Could Go Back in Time …
What would you change? About ten years after I graduated from Plainview, I ran into an old friend of mine from school. We shared briefly some of the ordeals we’d Read More …
Stephen King Moments
Every now and then, I have eerie encounters that I consider “Stephen King Moments”, as though I might have stepped through some portal into the landscape of one of his Read More …
Redneck Go-cart
I was probably around ten years old when our father traded for an old pale-green, riding mower. Since our yard was almost two acres, and we always used push mowers, Read More …
Mowing Grass
When I was a little kid, I always wanted to mow the grass. My oldest brother mowed our lawn a lot, and our father did, too. I wasn’t allowed because Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …