Life

I just saw a post about human trafficking being so bad in Florida right now. I am taken back a bit when I remember a time when one day one of my cousins went missing. That sinking feeling that...

Today I heard that someone I know has passed away. I am brought back to when I started kindergarten and I transferred busses to get to school. The bus was always crowded and her brother, who was a...

I was so proud of my car and worked many hours to be able to get it. It served me well and I was able to go many places in her! My siblings had names for their cars but I simply called it “her.” I...

I experienced death earlier on in life; My Aunt, Grandma and Grandpa, the priest at our church, and my biological dad. There were neighbors as well such as the farmer I worked for who was...

Yesterday I wrote about walking through the woods and going to the Devil’s Backbone, to the Limestone, and such but today I want to tell you about the activities we did when it rained and what we...

We did not have raspberry and blackberry rows like the neighbor we helped, so I remember many days walking the edge of the woods to pick them. We spent a lot of time in the woods either gathering...

Not only did I work on farms growing up, but I also worked at The Spaghetti Shop and cleaned house for a church member. My sister managed a Spaghetti Shop restaurant in Louisville off of Stony Brook...

I had just a handful of friends I felt comfortable around. I didn’t do well with many on count of teen attitudes and back stabbers who said they were your friend but would talk about you like there...

High School life was tough! Balancing school work and working was a challenge. The older cousins had other jobs by this time and my younger cousin and I would come home from school, eat a very quick...