Click here to see the paperback version of Alabama Footprints Confrontation is on sale for $5.49 (List price $12.97) just in time for Christmas…
Words By Heart According to family lore, my first public speaking experience was in our little one-room church in Kentucky when I was three…
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JUST LIKE MINE By Joyce Ray Wheeler We were so young in 1953 when my husband became a mathematics professor at Howard College…
Aftermath by Joyce Ray Wheeler My newest dictionary simply defines "aftermath" as "results or consequences" with the idea being that the consequences are not…
The Way We Were by Joyce Ray Wheeler Edmonson County in rural Kentucky where I grew up was known as the poorest county in…
Cute story reveals a little about life in the 1950s..... China Teardrops by Joyce Ray Wheeler It was September of the year 1953. A…
SUNDAY SOLILOQUY: Reflections from the Blue Rocking Chair - by Joyce Ray Wheeler PROLOGUE: Just when my grandchildren were beginning to outgrow their early…
Paid in full, this is hard to do nowadays by Joyce Ray Wheeler When we moved to Birmingham in 1953 we rented an…
I remember cutting out dresses for my paper dolls too. This story and video will bring back memories. A Paper Doll To Call My…
Dogs the Wheeler family has loved have a strange list of names. First was Trigonometry, a math hound; Lady, a black dachshund named for…
SONGS OF WORLD WAR II written August 2009 By Joyce Ray Wheeler He says it’s a song they sang when marching. Even after all…
Small Churches I have loved by Joyce Ray Wheeler Lowndesboro Baptist Church, Lowndesboro, Alabama ca. 1888 - with two doors for men and women…
(Remembering Joyce Ray Wheeler who was a frequent contributor of wonderful stories to AP. I especially liked this heartwarming one. Joyce Ray Wheeler passed away November…
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