Forest Corners Quarterly

As a family with 6 boys in rural Ohio we had so many amusing things happen I had to record them.  This is the 11th in the series. Disappearing Things ………… In our house things had a way of disappearing; dish towels were secretly used to clean auto parts, dogs, muddy tennis shoes and some [...]

With six boys they develop their own guidelines to “Uncool”.  You don’t try to outrun the bull in the neighbors yard, you don’t tie the neighbors daughter to a tree, you don’t relieve yourself on an electric fence. And then there was Frank …………….. his car door locked every time he shut the door, usually [...]

When there are kids around things get broken. Frank and a friend were chasing each other and one slammed the back door and the other kept going, right through the door window.  Their bedroom window ….. it was seldom unbroken. Scott painted a picture over it to hide all the cracks and I didn’t catch [...]