One evening, both my parents had to work late, leaving me in the care of my older sister, Rebeca,...
My mother was a loving and attentive woman, always striving to do what was best for her family. Yet,...
My name is Andrew, and this tale took place many years ago. During one summer, my sister Diane and...
As youngsters we were never shy, for we had grown up together and were used to the ways of...
In the world of home and family, the name Mrs Beeton is synonymous with wisdom and guidance. Yet, few...
During the 1950s, discipline at my primary school was administered with the utmost seriousness. Only the most unruly children...
When I was in my late teens, I traveled to Jamaica with my mother and younger sister to visit...
I was born in the late 1950s, the second of six children. I have four sisters and a brother,...
Once upon a time, in a quiet, sunlit suburb, there lived a little girl named Susan and her younger...
The summer that Grandmother came to reside with us was a season that seemed to stretch on endlessly, thick...
My family lived in middle Tennessee during the 1960s, a time when the Beatles were on the radio, kids...
In the mellow haze of the late 1960s, when the world was awash with new music, shifting fashions, and...
My dearest friend in childhood was a girl named Naomi. Naomi was a year older than I, with a...
To say that I had a tough start in life would be quite the understatement. When I was younger,...
In our younger days, whispers always floated about the family regarding how ‘mischievous’ Aunt Matilda had been, though the...
(gap: 2s) When the golden afternoon sunlight streams through my window, I am reminded of my own childhood, many...
(gap: 2s) My childhood in England, during the gentle years of the 1970s and early 1980s, was filled with...
(gap: 2s) In the heart of a most respectable English village, where the hedgerows were always neatly trimmed and...
When I was a little girl, our next-door neighbours were my mother’s sister, Aunt Linda, and her daughter, Susan....