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How does a month speed by so quickly? We are already halfway through April, and that just doesn't seem possible. The trees are mostly le...

  When my mom was young, her brother, my Uncle Bradley, had a little bottle of mercury. My mom always wanted to play with it, but he wouldn...

  I lost my son at a theme park when he was not quite three years old. He and I were at Silver Dollar City, an 1880s theme park near Branson...

  My very, very first concert was John Denver. My second one was Kiss. It was in the fall of 1977, and my best friend Jane and I bought tick...

  When my son was around 8 months old, I got a whopper of a sinus infection. It was the end of the quarter at work, so instead of staying ho...

  A lifetime ago, I worked at a record company in a division that made compilation albums (think the infomercials that used to come on durin...

  My mom did not wear her hair in a big bubble 'do in the 60s, but it was certainly teased and poofy. She washed her hair with Prell on ...