My Mother loved to tell me the story of her birth — more precisely — her birthplace. She was born in her mother and father’s small home on what would later become a part of the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa , Alabama. …

COVID RELIEF Self Storage Minty closed and locked the front door of her apartment , then walked the short distance from her apartment to her car in the nearby parking lot. The early spring sunlight bathed everything around her in soft, bright light. The promise of spring always caught her…

Mommie Dearest I am that woman — older, an ‘Empty Nester’ (3 sons launched into the world), dog and cat mom, reader of trashy romance novels (still), paddle boarder, runner, lover of soups and seafood. According to contemporary/social media I am recognized as the ‘Empty Nester’ (EN) vis a vis…