Mississippi is hot, very hot. One super-scorching day, Aunt Marguerite says, “You kids go on and get your swimsuits. Frank, your daddy’s gonna take ya’ll to the town pool.”
This man who is my father will never again be the man I knew growing up.
He’s not going to remember any of these things. I must remember them for him.
The Hoya, The Acorn, and The Man
A weed is growing in the pot of my Hoya plant. I struggle to get a grip on the stem with its two scraggly leaves. We battle. I tug; my fingers slip, I tug and slip again, I tug and – out it pops. At the end of the feisty little stem now in my grasp is an acorn. It is not a weed at all. It’s an oak seedling. Remorse ensues. I did not intend to end the life of a tree.
Practically Singing
Jan’s handbook for singers, “Practically Singing” is based on her years of traveling in a rock band and performing on stage in musicals and operas.
Jan Callner 