Daddy Takes Us Skating

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Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins

Apr 2, 2024

On June 5, 1972, my dad went into business for himself as a heating and airconditioning repairman. After forming the Scanlan Company, Dad worked out of our rural home in south-central Ohio. Initially, his office was downstairs in our unfinished basem

Go: Drive & Camp

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When The Bug Bites…

Mar 25, 2022

My husband Mike has always been a keen camper. Me… not so much. But, I was prepared to try. So, when our kids, Andrew and Amy, were two and four years old, we bought a bulky eight-person tent and everything else we needed. It was wonderful, but pitch

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Kick Back With A Book

Jan 15, 2021

Pop-up Peekaboo! Penguin tells the sweet story of Polly Penguin as she searches for Charlie Chick. Babies and toddlers can lift big flaps and see five peekaboo surprises pop up from the pages: a sleepy seal resting on the rocks, a huge whale swimming

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A Year With Granny: A Lifetime of Memories

Aug 1, 2023

In the winter of 1964, we packed up our belongings and moved from our home in Abilene, Texas, to Granny’s house in Gadsden, Ala. Melanie, the oldest, was 9; Jim, the baby, was 3; at 6, I had the “honor” of being the kid in the middle. Our lovely moth

North & South

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On the Road Again

Dec 19, 2021

In October 2009, shortly after my partner and I returned to New Zealand following our requisite foreign gallivanting, I relocated a campervan from our temporary home of Christchurch to our new permanent home of Auckland. It was filled to the brim wit

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Southern Style

Sep 1, 2017

Today, Lauren James Enterprises, a Fayetteville, Arkansas–based apparel company that sells preppy dresses and T-shirts with a southern flavor, has more than 100 employees, three retail locations, and $13 million in revenue. In the beginning, it was j

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Meet The Hit Maker

Sep 29, 2021

When I woke up today, my first thought was … Where is my coffee? (It arrived, seconds later, delivered to my bed. I start the day like the Queen.) In my new book, Apples Never Fall, tennis coach, wife and mother Joy Delaney goes missing, leaving her

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FireWorks and Fireflies

May 31, 2022

Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, every holiday was special because my grandparents and parents made it that way. I have so many wonderful memories of all of them, but the main ingredient in making them special seemed to always involve being around f

Pick Me Up

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Tickets purr-lease

Mar 7, 2024

Perched up on the ticket barriers, our family cat Nala was in her element. Greeting people as they passed, she loved fuss. And you could find Nala in Stevenage train station every single day. She was an explorer and she had always been this way. Me,

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BITS & PIECES

Aug 1, 2023

When I was a child we lived in Pax, W.Va., a small community with a lot of churches. I remember at least six different ones while I was growing up there in the 1950s. Since it was a very small community of just a few hundred people (less than that no