April Coker, Author

Author: aencoker

  • Teacher Tuesday: Noisy or Quiet?

    If you as someone not in the field of education walked past a classroom that seemed noisy and chaotic, would you think learning was taking place?  Or would you prefer to see students sitting quietly in rows of desks listening to the teacher presenting the lesson?  It’s a question I asked myself often during my…

  • Meaningless Drivel Monday: "Stop and smell the stuffing!"

    Okay, it’s getting ridiculous.  The Christmas season, or as the politically correct like to call it, the holiday season, is coming earlier and earlier every year.  Have you noticed?  This year I saw Christmas ads on television even before Halloween was over.   Stores like Hobby Lobby and Michael’s have stocked their Christmas aisles beginning…

  • Feline Friday: Peepaw and the Cat

    My dad is the last person I ever expected to bond with a cat.  Some of my most memorable moments as a child are the ones where he flung a cat out the front door by the tail simply because the cat made the mistake of sampling Daddy’s supper plate.  Stray cats wanting only to…

  • Workin’ Wednesday: Booth Sprucin’

    Today was a good day to do some rearranging of the booth at Uniques & Antiques antique mall where my sister Sharon and I share a booth. I had gone through all my Christmas things in preparation for a garage sale last week so I had a few things pulled to put in the booth.…

  • Sitting Saturday: A Cacophony of Cows (or How to Sit Quietly for Four Hours)

    Okay, let me just say that I have a hard time sitting still.  Just ask my family.  They say I fidget constantly in church–messing with my jewelry, flipping through the hymnbook, flicking off my chipped nail polish, reading ahead in the Scriptures–you get the picture.  Now imagine me sitting in a deer blind, trying to…