http://www.todays-woman.net Ms. Rose DesRochers - webmistress@todays-woman.net webmistress@todays-woman.net Today's Woman Writing Community Inc. en-us http://www.todays-woman.net/article1832.html Author:Marty RicKardHiding CloudsMother cooked four eggs she had gathered from our chickens. I ate them with home-cured bacon, stood, tugged up my jeans, thanked her, and drove away in my gray forty-two Ford. http://www.todays-woman.net/article1827.html Author: Mike FakThe December winds blew hard and cold at the farm on top of the hill. The two kittens huddled against each other by the back door of the farmhouse. They were trying to catch a little of the heat escaping from the bottom of the door before it was mixed and lost forever with the cold. It was under these circumstances that the old man with the raspy voice first met the two kittens. http://www.todays-woman.net/article585.html by Bernice Becker Read more about Bernice Our third grade class was listening to our teacher, Miss Pratt. She told us she was disappointed that we were not making the progress she had expected with multiplication tables one through nine. She explained that we really understood the meaning of multiplication but that we had not spent enough time memorizing the tables. The rote method was necessary in this case.