Aunt Mama Ellen and the Twins

My friend Ellen planned to adopt her sister’s newborn due about the same time as her own.  She was her sister’s coach and put the newborn baby girl to her own breast at its birth, taking it home with her the next day.  Her sister, the birth mother went back to college, missing only one day of class. Seven days later Aunt/Mama Ellen was sitting

Grandpa Was a Dancing Fool

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When my Grandpa Roscoe and his brothers were young, they never missed the rare opportunity to attend a dance or church social, no matter how hard they’d been working on the farm. They’d work like mad all week to get through in time to ride out to any barn-dance,

Horrible Booger Story

My five-year-old grandson was all ears as I told him about his cousin who said she liked to eat boogers because they tasted like pickles.  He burst out enthusiastically, “”I like that girl,”