
Somewhere South of Here
I''d wondered about my mother all my life -- what she looked like, how she smelled and sounded and acted. Lately this wondering had grown to encompass a curiosity about the kind of people she herself came from, because they were my family, too, after all, even though I knew nothing about them. I''d no idea whether they were loud or soft-spoken, funny or boring, preferred chocolate to vanilla, if t...
I''d wondered about my mother all my life -- what she looked like, how she smelled and sounded and acted. Lately this wondering had grown to encompass a curiosity about the kind of people she herself came from, because they were my family, too, after all, even though I knew nothing about them. I''d no idea whether they were loud or soft-spoken, funny or boring, preferred chocolate to vanilla, if t...