“Shared by Carla” The first ten years of my stay here on Planet Earth were spent in Owen Sound, Ontario. I can vividly remember the hot summer day I was taken by an older member of my family to Harrison Park where there was a fine swimming pool. The older kids were going up the …
Author Archives: Carla McNeil
The Baggy Yellow Shirt
“Shared By Carla” The baggy yellow shirt had long sleeves, four extra-large pockets trimmed in black thread and snaps up the front. It was faded from years of wear, but still in decent shape. I found it in 1963 when I was home from college on Christmas break, rummaging through bags of clothes Mom intended …
The Three Requisites
“Shared By Carla” Sometime today or tomorrow or next month, in practically every commercial office and manufacturing plant in the world, an important executive will sit back in his or her chair and study a list of names on a sheet of white paper. Your name may be on it. A position of responsibility is …
Uncle Earl
“Shared by Carla” “Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” Joseph Addison, The Spectator Annually my husband’s family has a reunion in a state park in the mountains of North Carolina. At one of the reunions, the weather was overcast, and more rain …
The Corsage
“Shared By Carla” “You’ve got to help me!” My friend pleaded with me. “You’ve got to take this girl to her sorority event.” This girl was getting interested in my friend, an interest he didn’t want to grow. While I was reluctant to get involved in this mess he had created, he was a good …