Writing Life Stories

Today is Monday. I had a busy weekend. That is good. On Saturday, Nadine, a former student and dear friend of mine, drove down and picked me...

Vegetables at the Meat and Three                                                                                                          ...

This is a big holiday weekend and people are traveling like crazy.   I will not be leaving home but did have a wonderful time with some good...

An Acrostic Poem An acrostic poem is one in which the letters going down the poem, spell out a word. In the following poem, I wrote about my...

September means football season, or did, at our house. From the time I married Barry Beall, I knew that Saturday afternoons in the fall mean...

Down to the Soft Grass   At the top of Windy Gap we spread our lunch of cream cheese and crackers we’d bought at a little general s...

It seemed that we would have no autumn this year. The temperature went from nineties to fifties suddenly, but for a few days we are having g...

March 2, was Barry's birthday . I can't let that special day go by without writing about him. I'll also share some photos. ...

Does anyone love Home Goods like I do? We don't have one in our rural area, but when I go to the city, I have to go in there. I try not...

Oh, tell her. Brief is life, but love is long.                --- Alfred, Lord Tennyson February is the month of love. All over the country...

Family is one thing that cannot be replaced. Whether we enjoy our family or whether we simply endure them at times, I find that family will ...

Althought he was not his usual jolly self, cracking jokes, or teasing Will, I never expected it to be his last Christmas. It was not a goo...

We didn’t have an old fashioned southern funeral with open casket, and visitation on the night before the service. We didn’t have everyone ...

This scene is outside our house where the air is healthier than it is inside. Pristine and pure, our air we breathe must be as clean as the...

My brothers, Ray, Max, Hal and Rex Council used to sing at the Council Family reunion in Crawfordville, Florida. My husband, Barry Beall , ...