Childhood can get so confusing sometimes. Especially when the adults keep changing the rules in mid-stream. Often our demands can be contradictory to a child. For instance: PARENT: “Look at me when I talk to you…Don’t give me that look…Answer me when I  speak to you…Don’t you talk back to me…Go to your room this [...]

If any of you have seen me walking around dressed totally in black, I’m not the ghost of Johnny Cash. The truth is, I’m in mourning. Yes, this is my widow’s garb. I usually wear it about four months out of the year. From September to January. You see, I’m a “Deer Hunter’s Widow”. Now, [...]

When we look like the photo on our driver’s license, we should probably stay home. I try to follow this rule most of the time. But you know, sometimes staying home isn’t an option. There are times when we’re forced to drag our less than attractive selves out of the house and into situations that [...]

Usually I’m a very nonviolent, peace-loving person yet I had this habit of fighting with my car. It was an older model Jeep Grand Cherokee that was previously owned. Previously owned being the term car salesmen use meaning worn out, used up and with more miles on it than the Apollo Spacecraft. Actually I had [...]

  Shhhh. It’s me again – Shadow. I’m using up mommy’s column space again this week to answer a letter I received from one of MY readers. I hope y’all don’t mind. Last week I received the following message from a Saint Bernard in Atlanta.   (It’s easy to see that he is very troubled because…well, [...]

Dirty Deeds by AC/DC It wasn’t the best of times; it wasn’t the worst of times. In fact it was a few minutes before midnight on a Thursday. I had finished up three writing assignments well before the deadline and I was feeling quite pleased with myself. I decided to take a break and reward [...]

SEMI-SERIOUS SATURDAY POST Doesn’t it seem odd that the older we get, the more important to us our parents become. As children, we saw them in a different light. We thought of them more as the nutrition and hygiene police. They made us wash behind our ears and always wear clean underwear. They made us [...]

I’ve never liked to go for a doctor’s visit. I’m always nervous and I always over dress. I feel like I am going to be on display. I worry about everything from having bad breath to ‘ is the skin on my elbows too rough’. I’m just not an up close and personal type of [...]