Piddle Diddle at Barnes & Noble

By Ralphine Major It was a beautiful fall evening when we arrived.  By the time customers started coming for the book signing, a terrible storm had descended on Knoxville.  Wayne and I were honored to be among the authors of Jan-Carol Publishing, Inc. and other...

Piddle Diddle on the Road

By Ralphine Major It was pouring down rain just days after Autumn made her appearance!  But, that didn’t bother Piddle Diddle.  She was happy because she had found her lost hat! “Piddle Diddle’s Lost Hat” is the first in a series, “Adventures of Piddle Diddle, the...

A Man Named Luttrell (Part I)

By Ralphine Major When I opened his letter, my eye was drawn to the sketch of a beautiful home on the letterhead in the top left corner. Below the stately home it read:  Luttrell House 1905.  The letter was from a man named Luttrell—Woodrow Luttrell.  The 1934...

Paul Michael ‘Mike’ Beeler

By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It was a big, yellow school bus that first brought us all together. One of Herb Barker’s buses made its rounds twice daily on our rural roads. It chugged down Emory, onto Stormer, then the horseshoe bend on Beeler that brought it...

Almost Autumn

By Ralphine Major It happens this time every year. Long summer days and the blazing hot sun slowly begin to disappear. Football season has started, the Tennessee Valley Fair has already come to Knoxville, and fall festivals are filling the calendar. The signs are in...