April Coker, Author

Category: Memoirs

  • Open Season for Wasps

    When the weather turns warm here in the South the wasps come out.  Here in East Texas we have black wasps, black-winged red wasps, all-red red wasps, yellow and black guinea wasps (we call them yellow jackets), dirt daubers, cicada killers (hornets), bumblebees, wood borers, and honeybees.  We’ve been blessed with quite a variety of…

  • Walking Ten Miles in the Snow–well, not quite!

    Although I didn’t have to walk to school ten miles in the snow, I grew up in a time when kids weren’t as pampered as they seem to be these days.  How so? For one thing, I rode the bus to school every day from first grade through twelfth grade with very few exceptions. My…

  • School Bus Shame

    I rode the school bus.  For twelve years I rode the school bus. For twelve years I didn’t like it, but I rode the school bus. Many of those years my mother didn’t even have a car, so the school bus was the only way to get to school. My father was too busy supporting…

  • Twister!

    Everybody in Texas seems to have a tornado story. They’ve either been in one, seen one, or know someone who has. I haven’t had the terrifying experience of actually being in a tornado, but as a kid I came close enough. Grandpa and Grandma Irwin were visiting from central Texas, and when the weather turned…

  • More from the Moseley house

    Being a second grader in the 60’s left quite an impression on me.  Here are some of the highlights: Winters were cold back then. We wore coats with fur-trimmed hoods and by the end of the season the fur would be matted and dirty. Yet the coat was passed on to a younger sibling.  Some…