Babs Iverson
Bio
Barbara J Iversen, also known as Babs Iverson, lives in Texas and loves her grandkids to the moon and back. After writing one story, she found that writing has many benefits especially during a pandemic and a Texas-size Arctic Blast.
Achievements (1)
Stories (308/0)
Summer Playhouse
The yellow school bus slowly came to its last stop. Henry, the bus driver, waved and declared, "Have fun during your break!" Happily, Susan and Sharon, identical twins, hopped, skipped and jumped off the bus. The girls could hardly contain their joy and happiness. The school was out for the Summer!
By Babs Iverson3 years ago in Fiction
My Musings
There wasn't a dining car on the night train from Chamonix to Paris which we realized after leaving the train station. Sadly, after depositing coins for a bag of chips, we received nothing. No chips! The only snack vending machine on the train was broken. Besides being hungry, we didn't sleep soundly in our train seats; but we did manage a few naps. Really, you would have thought traveling by train that falling asleep would come quickly. Wrong! It was a long, long night. Tired and hungry! Of course, we arrived exhausted and starved.
By Babs Iverson3 years ago in Feast
An American Folktale, It's My Favorite Story and My Family's Favorite Too
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.” Watty Piper As a child, as a mother, and as a grandmother, my favorite bedtime story is The Little Engine That Could. While I've read hundreds of children's stories at bedtime to my children and to my grandchildren, this American folktale by Watty Piper, Arnold Munk's pen name, is a classic. Besides being very positive and uplifting, the motivational story deals with overcoming problems and challenges and finding solutions. Providing children a positive mindset and practical message, the story addresses problems and challenges that happen in life; and when there is a problem, there is always a solution. Indeed, it is a very important lesson that children can learn from this story.
By Babs Iverson3 years ago in Motivation
My Social Shock Confession
Yes! It happens. Sometimes students will feel like a misfit or an outsider in High School. In fact, it was in Junior High when those feelings of being an outsider and misfit hit me. At our school, the girls, who lived in town, were the popular girls, and the girls who lived in the rural area of our school district were considered the misfit, outsider, and unpopular ones
By Babs Iverson3 years ago in Confessions
My Not Getting Rich Quick Story!
Once upon a time, we listened to our grandfather's stories. If there ever was a natural-born storyteller, grandpa, who was called Pap, was the best of all. His histrionic tales entertained us for hours on end. Often, we lost track of time. The fictitious tales captured our attention and imagination. As children, we loved listening to his stories. The stories instilled pride and confidence in his grandchildren. Admittedly, back then, children didn't have all the distractions that they have today.
By Babs Iverson3 years ago in Motivation
UNEXPECTEDLY
As the first rays of daylight streamed into Jane's bedroom window, the alarm clock's harsh loud sound cut into the silence of her room. Jane hit the snooze button for 15 more minutes of sleep. Again, the alarm goes off and Jane hesitantly leaves the warm safe comfort of her bed and heads to the bathroom.
By Babs Iverson3 years ago in Motivation
Mom's Way
People lost money during the worst economic hardship in American history. The year was 1929. The Great Depression began and ended approximately four years later. It was during the Great Depression that my mother was a child growing up on her family's farm in Central Pennsylvania.
By Babs Iverson3 years ago in Families