“Would you like to be queen for a day?” Jack Bailey, the weasel-faced, mustachioed gameshow host, asked his TV viewing audience. Inside the Queen for a Day studio, women applauded vigorously. Seven months pregnant with her fourth child, my mother glanced up from her ironing board and stared wistfully at the television. On that June afternoon in 1963, IContinue reading “Royal Wishes”
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Hurricane Tests
Three years ago, Mom retired and moved to Florida—lightning capital of the U.S. She wasn’t afraid of storms, and I guess she figured two billion alligators couldn’t be wrong. To further elevate my concerns, she refuses to evacuate for hurricanes. “We’ll be okay,” Mom recently assured me as a major hurricane tracked her direction. “TheContinue reading “Hurricane Tests”
Diana Estill 