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âIâm so happy! Iâm so happy!â Nora Mack said over and over as her birthday parade passed by Friday.Â
âIâm so happy! Iâm so happy!â Nora Mack said over and over as the parade passed by Friday.Â
Due to bad eyesight, she couldnât see the parade but said she was happy just hearing them pass by and honk and yell and âknowing they are there.â
It was a milestone for Mack, a resident of Peach Tree Place in Weatherford, who turned 103 years old that day.
Nora Catherine Kincannon Mack was born on April 2, 1918 in Ballinger, Texas to Jessie William and Rebecca Francis Kincannon. She had five sisters and one brother.
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Hoboes scratched messages on fence posts and trees, hopped on and off freight trains, and camped in out-of-sight places. They had their own vocabulary and adopted names for their fellow travelers.
Some men, and a few women, were Depression-era folks who lost their jobs or lost all their resources for many reasons and took to the road to find itinerant work. But, like many nomads throughout history, some chose the lifestyle for the freedom and adventure. They didnât beg for money â they looked for work. They proudly said, âWe are not beggars, robbers, bums, or tramps.â
My family and I had a great weekend at my momâs new home in Georgia for the Easter weekend.
I took Good Friday off work to make the five-hour drive. The weekend was crammed full of Easter activities for the adults and the children. We had two Easter egg hunts, dyed eggs, enjoyed a great meal after church and the children received plentiful Easter baskets with toys and candy.
I even got to play a game of pickleball with my uncle and threw Frisbee with my brother. For those who donât know what pickleball is, it is like a combination of tennis and ping pong. I am a pretty experienced tennis player, so I caught on to pickleball rather quickly.
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Amy: My husband and I recently welcomed our first child.
On my side of the extended family, our baby son (âSamuelâ) is the fifth grandchild, but on my husbandâs side, he is the first.
I am trying to be sensitive to the excitement and extra attention a first grandchild receives.
My mother-in-law, âJoan,â has been to our house for a visit of a weekâs duration each month since Samâs birth. Each time she visits, I am more hesitant to welcome her back.
Joan is blatantly disregarding the parenting strategy my husband and I have adopted in favor of her own techniques. She does this against our specific instructions and without discussion.