Rebecca dropped the kids off with an explanation that she had to run some errands. No need to give the family additional cause for concern, she reasoned. She headed to the town’s library, a place she had not yet visited. “This ought to be interesting,” she thought, wondering just how she was going to find [...]
Continue Reading...Bill and Dick lived with their mother and father and their Aunt Peggy in Nana Burns’ home on Abbotsford Lane in Germantown, Philadelphia. Every Sunday the aunties arrived at Nana’s house to clean. Even though some had homes of their own, they always made time for their mother and helped her whenever they could. Bill [...]
Continue Reading...He clears his throat, stretches, rubs what’s left of the hair on his head and then slowly rises to a sitting position and swings his legs to the floor. He pushes himself off the bed and waddles, stiff knees and hips to the bathroom. The pees keep getting longer and slower. His head is pounding. [...]
Continue Reading...The phone was buzzing/humming throughout the day with the usual voice mails and text messages. She occasionally glanced down to verify the i.d. She was on a deadline and was not about to respond to all the incoming traffic on her phone… The phone went off again and she was feeling exasperated. She glanced down [...]
Continue Reading...Molly shared her bedroom with her mother’s sister, Margaret, or as Molly affectionately called her, Aunt Peggy. It was pretty common for extended families to live together during tough times and unmarried siblings, especially, stayed at home until they got married. Aunt Peggy was no exception. However, Aunt Peggy was like no other aunt you [...]
Continue Reading...Etta stood in the doorway. “Stop it, Alfred, you’re scaring them beyond reason and they need to keep their wits about them,” admonished his wife. “You know I’m only trying to warn them. They don’t have any idea what they’ve walked into. Just like the last family” replied Alfred, exasperated. Alfred sat down in the [...]
Continue Reading...As I ponder the implications of that phone call, Mom taps me on the shoulder and I jump a foot! “Sorry,” Mom said quietly, patting me on the back. I put off going in to work long enough. As I head out the door, I stopped to look myself in the mirror. In spite of [...]
Continue Reading...Molly lived in a two-story brick house with her parents, William and Katherine Coyne, her older brothers Bill and Dick, and at various times, her grandmother and aunts and uncles galore on a pretty street in Germantown, Philadelphia. During tough times, families pull together and often open their hearts and homes to help each other [...]
Continue Reading...The tension is mounting — everyone pretends to be concentrating on the task at hand but there’s no denying the usual signs. Quietly, our higher functioning brains are working feverishly to deny what our primitive brains have already registered — fear. The kind that has the hair on the back of your neck standing up, [...]
Continue Reading...She slips by quietly in the dark, down, under, un-noticed or maybe she is noticed but no one disturbs her on her way, her pilgrimage doesn’t require acknowledgement. They have seen her pass this way before. You see she has some heavy business to conduct. She needs a little guidance. She’s tried going straight to [...]
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