Rocky the Rocking Horse

Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.

This is Rocky. Santa brought me this lovely fellow for Christmas. He was the biggest thrill of my life. We must have bounced thousands of miles together. In my mind, he transformed into a gorgeous black stallion when I climbed aboard.

Mother Always Loved Them Most


Mother and Daddy were bipolar, as a couple, not individually. Daddy was generous with tales of his life on the wild side intended to edify and occasionally entertain.  In his youth, he’d selfishly used up the family quota of sin, carousing, drinking, gambling, fighting, and honky-tonking to his heart’s content.  Reforming after marrying Mother, he Continue reading