THE BOY ON THE BEACH by Mary Towne (Author) It’s August 1943, and while many of the Long Island neighborhood young men are fighting in WWII, the folks at home are battling a polio epidemic among their kids. It’s scary because no one knows how the horrible disease is contracted. A notion going around is that you…
PIT PONY by Joyce Barkhouse & THE MEMORY CHAIR by Susan White, PIT PONY is set on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia in a coal-mining town in the early 1900s before automation. The men in families were miners and “owed their souls to the Company Store.” Coal mining was a brutal job, especially…
Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Challenge. For today’s prompt, write about a work experience. Knickknack, Paddy-whack, Give a Dog a Bone Very early on, when I was nine or ten, I became the chief knickknack duster of our home. My mother, a widow, worked…
A Story of Enduring Love, by Jackie Houchin Fifty years is a long time to love a woman, Abe admitted as he leaned out his window and breathed in the fresh spring air. A lot can happen in that time to cool a man’s passion and make him look for something new. But his love,…
Day 26 – A few fave family traditions? —– Holiday meals like Thanksgiving and Christmas, and sometimes New Year’s together. —– Attending Sunday School and Church every week (and loving it). —– Treasure hunts for the little kids at Christmas. Now that the kids, grandkids with some great grandkids live far and wide around the…
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