BLOGWORDS – Wednesday 8 July 2025 –WRITING WEDNESDAY – DOUBLE DOUBLE WHO’S IN TROUBLE - JEREMY & JORDAN “BORROW” THEIR MOM’S CAR

BLOGWORDS – Wednesday 9 July 2025 –WRITING WEDNESDAY – DOUBLE DOUBLE WHO’S IN TROUBLE - JEREMY & JORDAN “BORROW” THEIR MOM’S CAR

WRITING WEDNESDAY – DOUBLE DOUBLE WHO’S IN TROUBLE - JEREMY & JORDAN “BORROW” THEIR MOM’S CAR

 

 

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JEREMY & JORDAN “BORROW” THEIR MOM’S CAR

      There was the time when we were fourteen and we took Mom’s car for a drive. She was driving a ten-year-old Honda at the time and we wanted to go skating but she wouldn’t let us. Later, in our room, Jere said we should go anyway. Only problem—the skating rink was in Covington. Jere said, no problem, we’d take Mom’s car.

      We snuck downstairs—she was in the den watching TV and couldn’t see us from where she was sitting. She always left her purse sitting on the kitchen counter by the door. Jere managed to get her keys out without a sound—I was impressed.

      He said it was his idea, he was going to drive. So we got in the car, he started it up, and away we went. Man were we feeling pretty righteous, laughing how we got away with it. Thankfully, her car wasn’t a noisy rattletrap.

      So we’re heading out of Merida and Jere asks if I know how to get to [ROLLER RINK]. I said I didn’t know. Which put us in a pickle. No use trying to get there if we didn’t know where it was.

      So we rode around on [ROADS] and ended up at [PARK]. We hung out for a while then figured we better get back home.

      I told Jere that since he had driven us out here it was only fair that I get to drive home.

      Well, Jere was pretty good behind the wheel. Confident, knew what he was doing. I probably was, too—or would have been. But I got cocky. Thought I could act like [NAME] and drive with one arm hanging out the window.

      Bad idea.

      I missed a curve and drove off the road. Managed to correct it and got back on track. Made it to Briarwood Road, made the turn onto Green Briar and almost made the turn onto Sweet Briar Court, our street. Did I mention it curves? I managed to get to our driveway and we thought we were home, free and clear.

      Until I smacked right into the corner of the house.

      Thank God I was only crawling up the driveway and didn’t do any damage to the house. The bumper, however, was a goner. Not something you can really hide from a person.

      Well, as you can imagine, it created a thud and a clang, and of course, Mom and Jeff came out to see what had happened.

      Seeing as how I was in the driver’s seat there wasn’t really any way I could pass it off as Jere’s fault. I mean, it was his idea, but that was irrelevant at that point.

      I heard the whoosh of Mom’s breath and saw her shoulders shaking. I know she was trying not to cry. She didn’t yell, didn’t ground us, didn’t say a word. Just turned around and went back in the house.

      That was the worst punishment we could have gotten. Knowing how much trouble we were in and watching her walk away from it.

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“I’ve always had voices—er, stories in my head. I once said I should write them all down so someone could write them someday. I had no idea at the time that someone was me!”

 

My stories are deep and dark, my characters raw and real, with a healthy helping of hope and joy, humor and laughter, and abiding and sustaining faith.

My characters struggle in some way for their identity. Their stories are their journey to know who God created them to be.

There is also a strong element of friends, family, and faith in all my stories, and the difference it makes to have such a support system.

 

 

• unsavory heritage series—seven generations, from Cissy to Connie, each with their own secrets, one of which is ugly and unsavory, and initiates the curse they all bear
• Seasons series—four friends, each one struggling to know the truth of just what happened when one of them plunged into the depths of the black waters of the Edisto River
• FourSquare – Four stories about four couples who also happen to be four sets of twins.

 

 

“Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light.”—Madeline L’Engle

 

“There is freedom waiting for you on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” —Erin Hanson

 

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