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 that she was dead. So many years later, with two step-children in the house, I was speaking with my mom about traveling to my dad's funeral. She asked me if I wanted one of his cats. I turned to my...

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 now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia. The  Chesepian were wiped out by the Powhatan Confederacy, sometime before the arrival of the English at Jamestown in 1607. The Chesepian were  eliminated...

Desayuno, or breakfast in New Mexico, USA. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://terrystuff.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/cusp-of-a-morning/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://terrystuff.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/my-heart-is-not-awake/