In the Sloan apartment, Nurse Katherine finds Muriel even worse. After she leaves, Mrs. O’Fallon returns for an unwelcome visit. When Mrs. O’Fallon asks Granny when her husband died, Granny tells her that she doesn’t know that he has died.…
As Margaret continues her complaints in the butcher shop, Mr. McGrath tells her and Helen that he never wanted to be a butcher, but when he was fifteen years old his father died and someone had to take over. Now…
The curtain rises. Gossipy Mrs. O’Fallon wonders who Mr. Harrison the landlord will evict today. Pawnshop owner Mr. Kline shoos Mary the street child away from his shop. Shirt factory owner Mr. Curtis tells the shoeshine boy to shine his shoes…
Did God use a cookie cutter when He made your children? It’s okay if your child is different. Children just are different. Some learn to read when they are four; others learn to read long after that. Some children…
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday — today is play practice day 5. After putting the sets in place on Sunday, we have just three more days of practice before dress rehearsal on Thursday and the first performance on Thursday night. It’s intense, sort of like…
When we first became involved in the homeschool support group in Cookeville, Tennessee, in 1994, I quickly volunteered to organize our group’s trips to the theater. We had good theater opportunities a couple of hours away in Nashville and often even…
