April Coker, Author

Category: Life

  • Hang on, Mama!

    Step on the brakes!  Your baby has made it all the way to his last year of school.  This is the year you have been working toward, the culmination of all those years of trudging through his childhood, buying that mountain of school supplies every August just to find out that by October he was…

  • Why I’m Happy School is Starting Again

    Ah, back-to-school time.  That season of the year when store shelves are brimming with shiny new pens, markers, notebooks, and lunch boxes, and clothing racks are stuffed with fashions for going back to school.  Parents groan because of the expense of equipping the kids with everything required for the new school year–but those shoes fit…

  • JFK and Me (or My Jackie Problem)

      No, I didn’t know President John F. Kennedy, but I would have liked to.  Unfortunately, I was only four years old when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.  I do remember going to the memorial service held at Van High School auditorium just afterwards.  When I developed a keen interest in President Kennedy,…

  • When the truth hurts

    I was in the veterinarian’s office the other day having a lump on my Boston terrier’s leg looked at when a woman, her six-year-old daughter, and their large dog came in.  The little girl was taken with my Molly and asked if she could pet her. “Sure,” I replied. “What’s her name?” “Molly.  See all…

  • My Love/Hate Relationship with Spring

    Ah, spring.  I would bet thousands of poems have been written extolling the virtues of spring, the beautiful flowers, budding trees, warmer temperatures, singing birds, and frisky wildlife.  Who doesn’t enjoy all those things? Unfortunately, here in East Texas, spring brings some unpleasantness with it as well.  Yes, I know, you people up north get…