Growing up, my dad let me pick out the flowers for the flower bed in front of our screened back porch. Top of the list was always snapdragons with their elaborate blooms that, if you pinch gently in the right place, animate the dragon’s velvet petal jaws. I wanted zinnias with their blasts [...]
Posts Tagged ‘growing up’
6 Aug
Misplaced Persons
There’s losing people to horrid things like death, and events from which they cannot return. And there are friendships that fall apart or are hacked up into tiny bits with a sharp machete. There are people with whom you become geographically incompatible. What about the people you misplace? Like Julie Christensen. I misplaced her, I [...]
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