by Caroline Crocker | Jan 22, 2025 | My books, Writing
Golden Nib Award I’d forgotten that I’d entered, so hearing that my piece won first place was a total surprise. Here follows the nonfiction piece itself: If the Tree Could Speak Chapter 1, Unforgivable “Frits, stop your ridiculous tinkering!” Sister...
by Caroline Crocker | Oct 29, 2024 | Family, My books
Mom moved in with us about five months ago. She will be 90 in January, so it seemed like a good time. Since then, we’ve been working on arranging the sale of her house—and now it’s done! So, what’s Mom doing with all her spare time? First, a cruise in the Bahamas....
by Caroline Crocker | Aug 26, 2024 | Family, My books
Baby Book While cleaning out Mom’s home, we came across my father’s baby book. Those who read his story will know, but for those who haven’t, Dad was born in the Belgian Congo in 1933. His father worked as an accountant on the Capetown to Cairo railway. His mother was...
by Caroline Crocker | Jun 10, 2024 | Faith, My books, Teaching
My husband, Richard, and I just got home from our first-ever home school convention: Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV). Let me hasten to add that I felt a bit of a fraud, considering I didn’t home-school my children. In their day, it was barely a thing. In...
by Caroline Crocker | Jun 4, 2024 | My books, Writing
Phew! Do you ever have seasons of life where, in retrospect, you realize that you just might have bitten off more than you can chew? Yeah. That. This has been quite a couple of months! On Sunday, the Fairfax Library cosponsored a book reading and signing of...
by Caroline Crocker | May 27, 2024 | My books, Writing
Sometimes what I do is wildly successful. Other times it isn’t. Sometimes the success or failure is because of something I did. Often it is not. The key lies in both enjoying and learning from the experience, whatever it is. Everything at Once The Urbandale...
