Search

Search results

  1. Big Rock Candy Detour, Part 1

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Younger Audience (g/y) The song, "Big Rock Candy Mountain" may have saved my Aunt Opal's life back in 1951. It happened like this: ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 10 comments

  2. Big Rock Candy Detour, Part 2

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 8 comments

  3. Doodlebug Wages

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Younger Audience (g/y) ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 22 comments

  4. Painting the Chinaberry Trees

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Younger Audience (g/y) Near the end of the three weeks, Aunt Grace got a phone call from Aunt Opal, the oldest of the sisters. Aunt Opal lived in Brawley, Calif ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 34 comments

  5. The Left-Handed Cantaloupe

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Younger Audience (g/y) Mom took an immediate job in one of the agricultural sheds since Aunt Opal would stay at home to take care of me and John. Dad soon joine ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 27 comments

  6. Little Golden Memories in a Little Red House

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Younger Audience (g/y) I’m not sure how long we stayed with Ma and Pa that time, not more than a few months I’m sure. We moved into a house in town that wasn’t ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 18 comments

  7. Uncle Hank and the Cold Potato Part 1

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Younger Audience (g/y) Mom taught me my letters and how to sound-spell and I would puzzle out some of the shorter words, getting good enough that with my supply ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 13 comments

  8. Uncle Hank and the Cold Potato Part 2

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Blog About:  Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Younger Audience (g/y) Daddy's brother, Uncle Virgil, dropped in on the New Years party that had turned into an Arkansawyer wake for Hank Williams. Natural ...

    - 2012/05/06 - 1:39pm - 15 comments

  9. Jeannie loved Halloween

    erin's blog Author:  Joyce Melton Caution:  CAUTION Blog About:  Autobiographical Eleven years ago, Jeannie died on the day before Halloween, the holiday she loved for its morbid humor. Last year at this time, I got out of town and went to New Jersey ...

    - 2015/11/02 - 2:03am - 9 comments

  10. Awake at three a.m.

    Author:  Joyce Melton Joyce's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Humor / Jokes / Cuteness Awake at three in the morning. It's a contradiction of human existence, I guess. I'm awake right now because I was having a weird dream. In the dream, ...

    - 2016/11/27 - 4:20pm - 7 comments

  11. Had a scare on my morning walk

    Author:  Joyce Melton erin's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical While out walking the dog this morning, I experienced very sharp, quick, electric shock-type pain from under my left ribs shooting up my chest and down my left arm, twice. I had similar ...

    - 2018/08/09 - 12:53pm - 16 comments

  12. Wouldn't it be nice?

    Author:  Joyce Melton erin's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical It's the only holiday in August, my birthday.:) I'm 72. I'm thankful for a lot of things in my life and one of those is BigCloset which I have been operating, with the hel ...

    - 2020/08/07 - 4:07am - 38 comments

  13. October!

    Author:  Joyce Melton Joyce's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Whoever's birthday was last week, and the person whose birthday is next week and the one who is having one this week, happy birthday!:) Hugs, Joyce ...

    - 2020/10/19 - 9:33am - 2 comments

  14. What snoo?

    Author:  Joyce Melton erin's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical It snowed here Friday night and it has been raining since at the lower elevations. This has probably put an end to our fire season for this year, locally, though fires continue to burn i ...

    - 2020/11/11 - 6:39am - 16 comments

  15. Crowley's Ridge- free on Patreon

    Author:  Joyce Melton erin's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical Crowley's Ridge by Joyce Melton Free for everyone on BigCloset Patreon ...

    - 2022/11/07 - 11:46pm

  16. Broken Ankle

    Author:  Joyce Melton erin's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical I'm okay but off my feet for a few days. Hugs, Erin ...

    - 2023/09/13 - 9:52pm - 19 comments

  17. Ceiling Collapsed in Our Bathroom

    Author:  Joyce Melton erin's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical We had a small leak from yesterday's rain, and a bucket was under it, but about half an hour ago, the ceiling in the bathroom collapsed into the tub. Ah, me. Forecast is for three m ...

    - 2024/02/07 - 4:44pm - 6 comments