April Coker, Author

Tag: parents

  • Titche’s & Dr. Dolittle

    There comes a time in a child’s life–it was at age 10 or 11 for me–that he or she feels not quite a kid and not quite an adult. One Christmas season my parents took me and my sisters and brother to visit my uncle, aunt, and cousins in Duncanville, about an hour from our…

  • Today in (My) History

    January 12 (the day I started this post) would have been my husband Jimmy’s and my 42nd wedding anniversary. We married in January of 1980, him fresh out of high school and me between college semesters. Our honeymoon consisted of a weekend trip to a town 40 miles away. We had to be at school…

  • We’re in the thick of it now. . .

    It’s not fun any more. (Was it ever?)  March began with students and teachers excited about spring break.  Then spring break was extended for two weeks, then three, then four, and now who knows how long it will be before classes resume?  This pandemic has changed everything.     Now teachers are charged with providing…

  • Why Grandparents Seem Crazy

    Grandparents sometimes get a bad rap.  Parents complain about the grands spoiling their babies, giving them too many things, feeding them the wrong things, indulging their whims, and showing up too often to visit.  Maybe we grandparents are guilty of all of the above, but there is a really good reason. You see, we know…

  • Meaningless Drivel Monday: Parents and wake-up calls

    When I was a child I thought my parents would always be there.  It never occurred to me that I would someday grow up and they would grow older.  My parents were young when they married–only 16 and 17–and then they were parents of two children before they were 20, and four by the time…