The Girl Who Refused to Stay Silent Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943 to Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Her father worked as an engineer at Texaco, and her mother was a registrar at a local business college. The Joplins lived in a modest middle-class neighborhood, but Janis stood out from the […]

🥰When I was in 2nd grade, Mrs. Moore would read to us after lunch. We would all sit at her feet and she would pull out her Skittle jar. She would hand each of us two Skittles, and I would pray for red and green (together they tasted delicious). She used a paper clip as […]

There was a time when laundry would go out on the clothes-line in the middle of winter even during snow. It would later come into the house “stiff as a board”. The clothes were laid over chairs, drying racks and railings and the most refreshing clean air scent would fill the house as the pieces […]