Author: Carolyn

Well, my mother graduated from the 8th grade. My Dad from the 3rd. Where did that leave me? I needed more out of…

It’s never easy for us eastern Kentucky coal miners kin to talk about our past… so therefore, the thread will continue….

How would you like to grow with a nick name like Cowbones??? Well, it started because I was nothing but skin and bones…

Okay, let’s go way back… I think the reason I like old cemetaries is because when I was very young, we visited our…

One year all eight of us kids were so bad that year that Dad decided to punish us. Since he’d already hidden all…

Imagine you are a preschooler and your prize is a quiz in a box of Cracker Jacks! Yes, it happened to me. I…

Wow, we had gone back to Hyden, Kentucky  and I was about 8 years old. There was this old family store and I…

When we were small, our house burned down. Years later we returned and I found my spinning top! Only slightly burned…

What memories! This one involves giving birth to a baby in my most difficult times of my life. My father was killed when…

Remember when? I do! I remember a white room. Everyone was dressed in white. Although I could not see clearly, I remember. I…