by jo | Dec 8, 2015 | Reviews/Recommendations
My parents and brother just came out to Kansas for Thanksgiving and they drove the last of my earthly possessions here with them. Which means, I finally have all of my books with me again. As I unpacked the 6 or 8 boxes of books and started to sort them into piles to...
by jo | Mar 31, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
He must’ve been about 6 years old. His head full of blondish brown curls. He was tall, lanky, apparently even the “slim fit” pants would fall down because of his narrow width. I was a toddler, about three years old, with baby-fat chubby cheeks, big blue eyes, and...
by jo | Mar 24, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays, Stories By Jo
We sat in a small, barren classroom with approximately twelve standard table desks, in three rows of four. A green chalk board spans the length of the front wall, and a small wooden podium sits off to the side at the front of the room — it holds handouts and chalk,...
by jo | Mar 3, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
Eleven years. It’s been 11 years since she died. My older sister. Julie. Two years ago on my birthday, I wrote a column about celebrating even when it’s hard, and I talked about when my sister died, and the birthdays that followed. In the piece, there was this line:...