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A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of using coal as medicine for scrapes, cuts and sore throats.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of accidentally running over his cat's tail.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of celebrating the Halloween festival at school.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's unusual experiences of proving that love can be tested by various incidents but cannot be totally gone.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of having avoided death by following his mother's order of going straight home from school in 1944.

The author discusses the birth of her sister.

The article discusses the author's experience of chewing tobacco while growing up East Texas in the 1940s. He offers information on his grandfather, who loved to chew tobacco and could spit for distance and accuracy. He describes and incident in which he stole a small plug of tobacco from his grandfather's house and tried to chew it, but accidentally swallowed the juice. The author also recalls how his mother treated him with two tablespoons full of castor oil.

The article discusses the author's experience as a funeral home personnel and ambulance driver in the U.S. in 1956. During that time, funeral homes provided ambulance service for the community. The author recounts an incident when he rescued two girls that were trapped inside a car after crashing with a trailer.