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Unconditional Love

Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who? In their classic song, The Who ask an essential…

At An Unexpected Hour

Technically, it was a burglary, but it felt like a robbery. A man and his nephew broke into our house nearly 40 years ago and took some $20,000 worth of…

White Christmas

I’m dreaming of a white ChristmasJust like the ones I used to knowWhere the treetops glisten and children listenTo hear sleigh bells in the snow … . Uncle Joe was…

A Cup of Cold Water

Plates jammed with meatloaf, collards, macaroni and cheese, steam rising in the air, the green, yellow and brown foods pushing up against each other, each flavoring the others, mingling the…

A Little Lamp

When my Uncle Glen was a child, he had gotten his sister, Aunt Frances, a Christmas present and had been very careful to keep it a secret from her. One day…

Where have all the flowers gone?

Where have all the flowers gone?Long time passingWhere have all the flowers gone?Long time agoWhere have all the flowers gone?Girls have picked them every oneWhen will they ever learn?When will…