Growing Up In Waldron

 People always thought it was kind of funny that their names were so similar:  Albert and Alberta.  Albert was never called that; everyone w...

Love Always, Skipper The rest of the family always said that Skipper was emotionally disturbed, and there’s a better than even chance tha...

Addie was Mama’s older sister. She was always kind of like our second Mama; I guess that got started when Mama was in the hospital for over ...

Our store-bought birthday cake, circa 1964.  I share my birthday.  I arrived at Sparks Hospital on a snowy January 18, 1956, at 12:34 p.m...

There was no such thing as kindergarten at Waldron Elementary School back in the 1960's.  First grade was where it all began; the first ...

I started my school career dutifully partaking of the nourishment offered by our school cafeteria. Being a somewhat picky eater, I held mos...

It's silly, really, to think that he was anything other than a stray, or maybe one of the mutts that run our neighborhood.  But I'd ...