Donna L Martin's THE STORY CATCHER

Since this is the last installment of  my TALES FROM THE BAYOU series, I thought I would give everyone a hodge podge mixture of diffe...

I'm not one of those people who eagerly overlook Thanksgiving in my rush to charge headlong into Christmas. But there w...

I understand now that my mother must have pinched pennies for months when I was growing up in order to create the banquet she did o...

In honor of the Fall...my favorite time of the year...I thought I would list my ten favorite things about this season when I was gro...

Give me something good to eat. Christmas is my favorite time of the year, yet Halloween will always hold a special place in my ...

I don't exactly remember what age I was when I began to read on my own...probably around 5 years old or so...but books have al...

My mother, God love her, was a woman who struggled with the burden of poverty while trying to provide for her four children. While I ...

Fall is finally here and Halloween just a few weeks away. It's supposed to be down in the 40's by the weekend and the leav...

Every kid needs a sidekick when they are young. Somebody to be the buffer between them and the world. Someone to tell their s...

It's mornings like today that remind me of walking to school when I was a kid. We only had one car in the family and my m...

There are some kids who do nothing all summer long but hang out with their friends, chug glasses of coke or iced tea, and watch th...

Before Xbox and IPads...before smartphones and even smarter televisions there was a time to live a simpler life where neighbor...

Anyone who tells you crawfish taste like lobster is wrong. Crawfish tastes better and if you ever lived in the bayou areas...

Growing up in a poor family didn't give me many chances to cater to my sweet tooth. I am a chocoholic from early chil...

The summer has been long and busy and hot, but now that the kiddies are back in school I can actually take a moment to relax....

I discovered early on that I was born to love music. I don't mean I'm able to tolerate it or that I simply enjoy listenin...