10:36 pm, June 19, 2012 San Francisco, California Resident’s of Debra and Medford Crenshaw Blue and white flashes of light blinded the sleeping neighborhood of Springsleak. EMS rush faintly to their automobile dragging a stretcher from each corner. The pale white sheets were drenched in blood of the now deceased. Investigators and California detectives questioned [...]

This happen to my Daughter (Shy Brown) and Grand Daughter (Madi Bryant). In Shy’s own Words. This is a true story about a dog that was more than just a pet. She was a friend, a protector, and a heroine. A dog that, just within the first minutes of meeting her, I knew would be [...]

I feel like a married man with a mistress! Life is always a challenge.  Even as a baby, you’ve a choice to make.  The challenge is getting what you want.  For example, if you want to be held, feed, pamper changed or just have your position change, your objections are limited in getting what you [...]

My father and I started our morning by darting into the local grocery store. I waited on line at the Starbucks counter while he shopped around to pick up a few things. As I was standing there I became aware of an elderly woman, hair disheveled, wearing layers upon layers of old torn clothing, hunched [...]

Lately it has seemed like every time we got a little ahead something would come along and we would have to start all over. Today I had to pick my son up early from school and decided to go to a local store. While I was looking around I noticed there was an envelope on [...]

  A long time ago I lived in Utah working on a uranium processing plant.  The Navajo Native Americans had a reservation nearby and made up a portion of the workforce.  I had to commute, and got in a car pool with Navajo’s.  We went to work in the dark, and came home in the [...]

It was a cold Minnesota winter day…a day which the sun rose to offer warmth after a fierce winter storm the night before. I ran in pajama feet to the kitchen waiting for the hot chocolate my mother used to make for us. Instead the ringing phone interupted this luxury. I would not get my [...]

Debbie Kerr word count: 1,665 dbkerr50@yahoo.com lines: 139 2400 Shady Lane, C23 Anderson, CA 96007 The year of beginnings and endings. “If your mother doesn’t have this surgery she will definitely die. If she has the surgery she will probably die but there is a 5% chance she will live.” These were the words my [...]

Simon came into my life 9 years and 2 months ago. I had my left knee replaced and he never left my side. After numerous surgeries Simon never left my side. Simon was a one person cat and I was blessed to be the one he loved. He never liked anyone else. My heart is [...]

I know that times are tough for the 99 percent of the people who walk on this planet. I can’t remember a time in my life that wasn’t a struggle, can you? Hey, I made less than ten grand last year, don’t have a car at the present time, don’t even have a dollar in [...]