if you have a seed

my niece in my parents' garden

My mother planted beans this year and they were awful. The sun was too hot and made for a terrible crop. This seems to be a problem every year and she wondered why she ever plants beans. But then she decided to try again. She put in a [...]

memory

When I was two and sister number 1 just a year old the Army moved my family from Texas to California. It would be the third home for my sister and me. We lived for a while in Seaside and then moved to Monterey while my father attended the Defense Language Institute. Our brother was [...]