You What?
There it was again…that incessant tapping on her shoulder. This was becoming an annoying habit. She was intensely interested in her new lab partner and would normally love chatting with him, but in the middle of chemistry class? “Gimme a…
Stories by Chari Kingsbury
The Chemistry Was Right
The summer had passed much too quickly. Here she sat in chemistry class, wishing she were elsewhere…anywhere but here! The shy girl loved the natural sciences and excelled in that subject area, but she suspected chemistry might prove different. It…
Him!
The dreaded evening came and with much inner quaking, the shy girl entered The Room, behind her friend. She timidly looked to her left, where several guys were already seated and almost gasped. There he sat, in the back, looking…
The Boy Scout Meeting
“Pleeeeeease!”, her dark-haired friend’s eyes pleaded as pitifully as her words. “But I don’t want to be a boy scout, and I’m not interested in pursuing law and order” the young girl replied to her friend. She could feel her…
The Call
Sitting with the choir one Sunday (the family dutifully went to church every Sunday), she sat politely listening to the missionary guest speaker. In all the years attending church in that denomination, she never recalled ever having met a missionary…
The Shy Girl
“Why don’t you go outside and play with your friends?” The young girl cringed inside every time her mother asked her that question. How could she admit that she didn’t have any real friends? What would her mother think of…
Watch this space…
Hello friends, This will not be a regular blog, like my previous ones. In fact, I am planning on trying something altogether different. More than one person has challenged me to attempt to write a book. Yup, you read that right….
Writer’s Block, Revisited
Ever struggle with writer’s block? You know you need to produce something in prose, but you wind up staring at a blank screen and just can’t for the life of you think of anything to say? I’ve been struggling with…
Heart Trouble
I recently conducted a study with the women’s fellowship in our church on nutrition and linking it with spiritual nutrition. It has been an informational and inspiring study, at least for me, and I hope, for the other ladies too….
Lessons from Rabbits
Recently, our family was watching the movie, Watership Down. Chip and I have both read the book by Richard Adams, several times each. The first time I saw the movie was many years ago on a date with Chip. I…