April Coker, Author

Author: aencoker

  • A Vignette for Valentine’s Day

    Don’t you love that word “vignette”?  (Does the question mark belong before or after the quotation mark?  I am a certified English teacher and I can’t tell you!)   Anyway, back to vignette. It’s French for “little vine.”  It refers to a brief evocative scene or display or a little drawing on a page.  In…

  • Perks of Being Sick

    I felt just fine until Tuesday.  The weather was nice here on Monday so I spent some time outside playing in the Scamp, opening her door and airing her out, taking her window covers off so some sun could shine in.  I even set up a cute little vignette outside the door complete with a…

  • On Getting Old(er)

    I  recently had a birthday.  They seem to come around more often these days.  I’m officially NOT young anymore.  There ain’t no way around it. To rephrase the words of Sammy Hagar:  “I can’t BE 55!” Me at one year of age, circa 1960 How did it happen?  One minute I am 16, going to…

  • No Gift Wrapping for YOU! A Post-Christmas Post

    In the frenzy of the last few days before Christmas, some shoppers get a little edgy. They seem to forget what gift giving is all about and get caught up in the frustrations of heavy traffic, crowded malls, and delayed shipments. Unfortunately, those whose job it is to serve these shoppers often receive the brunt…

  • Adventures in Gift Wrapping: It’s a Wrap!

    If you poked your head out in East Texas yesterday and listened, really listened, you might have heard the sounds of paper ripping as the lucky recipients of gifts wrapped by Cindi and her elves from Festival of Flags and Gift Wrapping in Tyler opened their beautiful packages.  Of course, most of us were too…