Some people long to know about the past—their own and anyone else’s. These people keep genealogy websites humming as they search databases and create family...
Sarah Barnes Vinson
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Stories: fictional, historical, biographical. Devotional thoughts. Writing tips. Helps for home and hearth.
~ Holly Bebernitz
Fridays—Family
Roles we all play in our homes, posted for the 31 Days of Blogging challenge.
Doll Dreams
Many years ago the Florida Times-Union invited readers to share a Christmas memory, which I did. The following article was published on Christmas Day. The...
Wagon Train
My maternal grandmother Alma Wilson had been battling cancer for many years when a prognosis of “terminal” was made in August 1977. At the time, I...
Ned Goes Fishing
Here's a little story-poem to begin the month and end the week. Share with the children in your life by reading aloud in a zesty expressive voice. Ned sat on...
Trading Places
If you’re at least a Baby Boomer or maybe older, you’ve been there: Handed your devices to a grandchild and gawked as he found what he wanted to watch or...
The Day We Went to Peshtigo
You have heard of Golf Widows? I was a Fire Extinguisher Widow. Mr. B. was a firefighter and specialized in fire extinguisher training. At one point, we had...
Family Traditions Intact
May 1988 the Florida Times-Union requested Mother’s Day stories from its readers. I submitted this story, which was published with a photo, captioned:...
Who’s First?
Long before you bring the first baby home from the hospital, you will receive lots of advice and testimonials, some of it asked for and some entirely...
Neither Rockwell nor Walton
Long before the Holiday Season cycles back around, let us pause right now, before the Publix commercials and Hallmark moments are airing, to consider Norman...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
