April Coker, Author

Category: Life

  • 10 Things Your Child’s Principal Wants You to Know

    Much attention is given to the first day of school from the child’s or parent’s point of view, but have you ever stopped to think about what the principal might be thinking when it’s time for school to start?  I had the opportunity to be a campus director in my career and here are some…

  • Gift Wrapped at the Gyno

    Oh, no, you dint.  Oh yes, I did.  Since my daughter and I are not working regular jobs at the moment, we decided to book our annual gynecological exams on the same afternoon back to back.  Yes, at the same doctor’s office.  After all, gyno appointments are much more fun if you can bring a…

  • I don’t like spiders and snakes. . .

    If you’re old enough to remember the 70’s, you might remember this song by country musician Jim Stafford (I had such a crush on him!): “I don’t like spiders and snakes, and that ain’t what it takes to love me. . .”     That song has been playing over and over in my head…

  • A Sunny Surprise

    Ever so often nature surprises you with something so unexpected you just have to stop and get off the crazy wheel. The surprise is in our backyard growing up through a piece of chain link fencing hubby took down so we could take down a tree (and there it still sits), growing up through the…

  • Not my day. . .

    Have you ever had a day when nothing went right, when you felt like you should have just stayed in bed?  I imagine we all have. Today was that kind of day for me.   It started last night when I knelt down on the end of my porch to turn off the water faucet…