DOLLAR STORE MOMENT
I’ve been gathering treasures for my grandkids from the Dollar Store shelves. As I hurry toward the checkout, a woman with a huge load of …
ALEXA’S SNOWMAN
Here comes December again. So I climb our creaky attic stairs, clad in sweats and my warmest, thickest sweater, and fumble around in the Christmas …
RUDOLPH’S WALLET
The world (at least our part of it) is divided into two camps – those who want to be surprised on Christmas morning and those …
STUDENT TEACHERS
They came bouncing into our classrooms with buckets of enthusiasm, ready to take on the world of Shuksan Jr. High. Little did we realize, struggling …
FOUR FEET OF HERO
Benjamin Lay was his name. Long ago, when slavery was accepted by just about everyone as a brutal fact of life, this four foot tall …
I’LL WALK YOU HALFWAY HOME
Barbara and Diane became lifelong friends in elementary school. As it turned out, they lived just down the road from each other on the Bakerview …
THE LONG WAY HOME
She’s just starting into 2nd. grade, cruising toward her eighth birthday. Her mom and dad kindly let us “borrow” her and her sister from time …
GRANDMA’S COOKIE JAR
My grandma’s cookie jar sat on the counter in a corner of her little pink kitchen, just waiting for her grandchildren to show up. Oh, …