Don’t Forget to Wait for Me
By Heather McPherson, twelve

I remember my dad so well: the way he laughed, the way he smiled, the corny jokes he used to tell and that goofy look he put on his face to cheer me up.?When I was growing up, my dad was in the Navy, first sailing, [...]

Grandpa’s Precious Gift
By Sharon Crismon

I wanted a baby with all my heart, but I was not getting pregnant. I waited, I prayed, I cried and I went to my parents when I could not find any more courage inside myself. With their love and support, I carried on…through tests, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization [...]

Change of Heart
By Muriel J. Bussman

When our youngest sister was born sixty years ago, my little brother was six and I was eight. I had always been the “Big Sister” and he had always been “The Baby.”
Our sister’s arrival was a complete surprise to both of us. In those days no one worried much [...]

Begin at the Beginning
By Lola De Julio De Maci

I had always wanted to go back to school. And one day, thirty years later, I did. I don’t know what gave me the guts to do it, other than a burning desire to finish something I had started years ago. When the day came to register, [...]

A Refugee Camp Birthday – By Renie Burghardt
My eleventh birthday was just a week away when we arrived in the refugee camp on that bleak and cold November day in 1947. My grandparents, who were raising me, and I had successfully fled our Soviet-occupied, communist country, Hungary, with only the clothes we were wearing. The [...]