When I was really young, only a toddler, my dad had this dream of becoming a dairy farmer. So he leased 80 acres of Louisiana piney woods, parked an Airstream trailer on it, and bought some heifer calves. Since baby calves take three or four years to grow into milk cows, he needed a job…
In Louisiana, it rains a lot. In El Norte, not much. In fact, from November to February, there was one evening shower at my house. But one evening, I was caught in a storm. As I was getting ready to close the kitchen for the night, I realized that I didn't have enough coffee for…
Thirteen years. Today he's been gone for thirteen years. I remember digging potatoes from the cool, moist Louisiana silt on warm May afternoons, piling them up, gathering them into buckets. I remember cutting watermelons on the back porch on June evenings, hearing the rind crack open, the summery-sweet scent of the fruit rising thickly into…
Trina Morgan 