Why all of my pets are wild

Every year around the last of Feb., or the first of March I alwaysremember two of the closest, and bestest friends I’ll ever have inmy life. It was about this time of the year that I lost boh ofthem. The first one to enter into my life was 3 years old when...

Why Am I Making This?

Homemade. Made from scratch. Made by hand. When food goes through your mother’s or your grandmother’s kitchen, taking its own sweet time, being chopped, basted, fried, toasted, and then set on a hand-crocheted hot pad on the sunny country-kitchen table, you have a...

Why Bluegrass

Some have probably heard the story about all of the learned academics who were summoned from across the globe to answer one simple question. Many spent weeks writing volumes to answer the question, but none were able to provide an acceptable answer. The field of...

Why Don’t Kids Come With Instructions?

The sallow woman across from me dabbed her eyes with a rough tissue. He husband rested his forearms on the table, his palms pressed together and fingers interlaced. His jaw was clenching and unclenching. This parent teacher conference was not going well. Their...

Why Don’t Kids Come With Instructions?

(Editor’s Note–Marcos from 2011.  RE)The sallow woman across from me dabbed her eyes with a rough tissue. He husband rested his forearms on the table, his palms pressed together and fingers interlaced. His jaw was clenching and unclenching. This...