I was born during the first year of WWII. We lived in Takoma Park, MD at the time. My mom’s sister, Pauline, came from KY to stay with us and help take care of me during my mom’s... Read more >>

She has been gone these twenty years but I remember her like it was yesterday. My “Auntie Mame,” Aunt Mary. She was the oldest of ten, in my father’s family. She could be a real... Read more >>

I wish I had been in California during the ’60s and ’70s. My aunt (who’s sometimes a big sister, other times a third mother) tells me about weekends away in Mendocino at a gorgeous... Read more >>

“Mom, can we go see Aunt Bonnie?” My son asks me this question regularly and I always smile. Aunt Bonnie. Beloved Aunt Bonnie. Bonnie is the person you want to tell when you have a... Read more >>

I always considered myself a tomboy. I wore black Converse shoes all the time, I had my hair in a ponytail most of the time, I hated pink, I played PlayStation, loved Star Wars, and spoke with an... Read more >>

I have these two beautiful nephews whom I love as my own. I was planning to go see them this weekend, but plans were interrupted by the death of my sister’s friend’s father. My prayers go... Read more >>

I was aroun’ three or four at the time when there was a family gathering at Grandpa and Grandma’s house in Clute. A lot of aunts, uncles, and cousins comin’ and a... Read more >>

Back in 1990 or so, my youngest daughter Vanessa was going shopping at the mall with her Aunt Dee. When they got in the car Vanessa’s door didn’t close all the way. Being a Chrysler New... Read more >>

I am sitting here looking at a miracle. Fifty years after my mother’s death, her last gift to me has been returned to me. On the night before she died, December 20, 1959, my mother gave me her... Read more >>

When I was just sixteen, in high school yet, my mother’s sister, Lillian, my aunt, said something to me I could not forget; and even after all these years, I can’t. My favorite... Read more >>