“But I’ve been gone for hours!” the central character will say. “You’ve been gone a few minutes,” another character might…
Articles by Danita LaShelle Jones
“Too bad there isn’t a children’s day!” one of my children declared. We had just wrapped up a great Father’s…
The music had ceased, and the platform guests were gone, but the audience remained in their seats, slightly stunned at…
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, kick!” At the time, I didn’t…
The massive natatorium buzzed with the chatter of children in their swim classes. As a mom of two of those…
“What?” the woman exclaimed a little too loudly. Her proximity to me made the shrillness of her voice even more…
There we were, down to the last few turns of one of the most intense games I’d ever played. My…
It was billed as “The Rumble in the Jungle.” The heavyweight champion of the world, George Foreman, would face…
“Then you know who we have to call,” a character might ominously say while surveying the preliminary damage. “Who?” another…
“What are you doing?” I heard my mother yell through the screen of the kitchen window. Busted! At 8 years…