Paris, the city of love. The Eiffel Tower dominated the cobalt sky. Bernadette stood, her breathing steady. She turned her lowered eyes towards the Seine, imagining all the “locks of love” attached to the bridge. Each couple, deeply in love, would write their names upon the lock, place it on the metal posts and then …
Month: February 2018
Ambition, by B. C. Speers, 1908
This is a copy of a graduation speech, given by B. C. Speers' at the Falls Branch, Tennessee High School, on March 27, 1908. Bernie Speers was the maternal grandfather of my husband Frank R. West, Jr. While this is not one of my memories, it a glimpse back into my husband's family history. I …
Tears from Looking Up
Childhood dreams - I still remember them, long reaching, perhaps implausible, bitter sweet. I dreamed of being an astronaut, with little chance of that ever happening. I was a skinny kid, fragile with a tendency to faint and so near-sighted, I needed glasses to count my own fingers. But I could live through others, watch …
Cheryl Lynn West 