My mother, Virginia Arends, 92, went peacefully to Heaven on Monday, June 21, 2021. This is the eulogy I delivered at her funeral. If you knew my mother well,...
Tribute to My Mother
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~ Holly Bebernitz
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Time change. Any way you look at it, it’s a bother, upsetting everyone’s rhythm, and taking days to get used to. And then there’s the re-setting all your...
Ava York
I have been writing "with intent" for the last ten years. Because I am a "plotter," I know where my story is headed, how it will end, and who will step onto...
The Hog Holler Radio Station VII
By the time I got home, the detectives had already been to our farm and told Zeke the whole story, which he told me when I got home. John McMullen,...
The Hog Holler Radio Station VI
My mind was hurtling along at breakneck speed, so I did not quite pick up on what Happy Jack… or whoever he was…was asking me. I was too busy looking around...
The Hog Holler Radio Station V
In all my life, I’d never been questioned by the police before. Even though I was completely innocent of any wrongdoing—up till now, that is, because if I...
Slogans Reviewed & Repurposed
The Slogan. It usually is introduced like this: “Well, you know what they always say… “…when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” “…never put off till...
Fractures Fixed
Thanksgiving Day, 1999. The meal was ready. The house was clean. The guests were due to arrive. My then-husband had helped with the preparations by cleaning...
Virginia’s Own Words
A fitting conclusion to this story to let my mother speak in her own words. Here is what she wrote to my father on their 50th wedding anniversary...
Who Said What When
Dream an impossible dream, set to work, watch it materialize, see it just beyond your grasp… almost within reach…falter…demand of yourself what you think...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
