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People tell me all the time that I have such crazy and funny stories. They say that they are just “hope things" because the stuff that seems to be part of my daily life just doesn’t happen to other people. I always say that if my life were a sitcom it would be hysterical but sometimes when you are in the midst of it, it doesn’t feel as funny. But like Ompa would tell me, humor makes life a lot less bad. He inspired me to share my stories and now as I get ready to retire I am

Dedicated to Richard Campbell My Inspiration About 30 or so years ago, my father in law, Richard Forrest Campbell, started The Tales of the Humming skunk somewhat unintentionally. It all started one fine afternoon in the smoky mountains of North Carolina where my father in law found a great deal of inspiration. My husband and I, as well as his brothers and their wives, had just arrived at their beautiful cabin. My father in law, which most people called Dick but I could never

The Story Behind My Name Before I ever had a story to tell, I had a name. My name is Hope. My mother gave me that name long before she knew what our life together would look like. She was a single mother in the early 1970s, when that wasn’t something society embraced. Even more remarkable, she had been told by a doctor that she would never have children. She was one of many young women the doctor convinced they couldn’t conceive. Some were even encouraged to have hysterectomi