by Charlene Adams | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
It was a transition year. You know, the first Christmas, when you get underpants in your stocking instead of twenty-five feet of emulsified corn syrup, rolled up with a fun fruity name? Toys and trinkets no longer have the power to wake you at 4:00 in the...
by Charlene Adams | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
What’s that – do I have a favorite child? Well sure! Depending on the day, deed or just because, I convince each one of my four children, in a cross-your-heart-don’t-tell-the others sort of way, that he or she is forever my favorite. Short lived and worth...
by Charlene Adams | May 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
The labored breathing wrestled with the pounding of the runner’s feet against the poor man’s pavement. (At least that’s what the county road worker called it when we questioned why they were masticating our paved road and layering it with tar and rock) The...
by Charlene Adams | May 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
The incessant tick, tick, tick of the timer wavered in between folly and just plain panic. I mean, it’s challenging enough just to pinch-ahold of those little critters. Okay, not really critters, more like twenty-five, three-dimensional, plastic molded,...
