I hadn't wanted any other pets after I left home. On one visit home, I learned that the family dog, Lady, one I had picked out and named, who I fed every day, and always came running when I called, from wherever she was, had sickened and been put to sleep. No one had ever told me she was sick, or...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://terrystuff.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/memories-of-a-blue-bayou/ *The word Chesepiooc is an Algonquian word referring to a village ‘at a big river’. The  Chesapeake people, or the Chesepian, were a Native American tribe who inhabited the area...