Family / January 22nd, 2008
Gardening with malice
When we were growing up, my mother would frequently complain about my father’s love of pruning and culling of garden plants. Not like she could talk – her hobby was propagating plants and then letting them languish in plastic pots until they died. She created them, because she could, but did not nurture them. But…
Family / January 17th, 2008
THE scariest book for a preschooler EVER
Now I don’t know about anyone else, but this book scared me when I was a little kid. Then the other night, I had an experience so full of de’ja vu that I got a head-spin. Adam whips this out, from a dark hiding spot in the bookshelf. I don’t even know how we happened…