Memories and a Coffee Can

Memories and a Coffee Can

by | Jul 24, 2013 | Bright Lights

Amid the odds and ends that are my sewing supplies is an old steel coffee can full of buttons that I can remember being around forever. It may have belonged to my grandmother, but considering that the Duncan Coffee Company began in Houston, and we lived near Houston...
Memories of My Daddy

Memories of My Daddy

by | Jun 22, 2012 | Bright Lights

  My daddy. Sounds a bit Southern and cutesy, I suppose, but that’s what I called him. And it has stuck after all these years. It was always Mother and Daddy. He died in 1992 at the age of 79 of what started out as bladder cancer and progressed to lung cancer. ...