childhood

The Memory of Scents

“Lake Taneycomo” (CC BY-ND 2.0) by Branson Missouri The other day during my early morning walk, I heard someone down a street mowing the yard. Then I smelled the sweet fragrance of cut grass. What followed was an unexpected surprise. I smelled the exhaust from the mower and it brought me right back to childhood, sitting in aContinue reading “The Memory of Scents”

Book Review: The Liars’ Club

Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club set a new standard for memoirs when it came out in 1995. In it, Karr tells the story of her well-educated, artistic, alcoholic mother and the uneducated, hard-drinking, doing-the-best-he-can dad her mother married as they struggled with life in east Texas and Colorado. It isn’t a story of a financial struggle;Continue reading “Book Review: The Liars’ Club”