Cathy Tompkins

A good night’s sleep is a marvelous thing. I find myself cranky for no apparent reason when my sleep isn’t good. It never fails to amuse me how my vocabulary and word and name recall deteriorate drastically after a night of poor sleep. This is just one person’s experience, of course. But there was a... Read More

Mine was a family of four girls, each born 2 years apart, give or take a few months here and there. I was the oldest. By the time my youngest sister was born, both parents were raging, non-functional alcoholics. That youngest sister grew up to tell me she considered me her parent. I was six... Read More

“Many there be that have run out of their wits for women.” King James Translation of the Book of Ezra originally written about 460, B.C.  “Poor Tom hath been scared out of his good wits.” William Shakespeare in King Lear, 1606  “During the whole of this time Scrooge had acted like a man out of his... Read More