Updates, stories, & miscellaneous musings by Pamela Spock
An only child, raised by a secretive and volatile mother, Millie wrestled with mysteries about her birth. Every attempt to follow clues was met with resistance. Who was she? What was everyone hiding? Then, one day, a shocking discovery in an old tabloid magazine shattered her world. It confirmed what Millie suspected, but also raised…
My mother always spoke what she thought, but didn’t always think before she spoke. She had an amusing way of blending phrases together by accident, creating something new. Then she’d slip them into a stream of emotionally-charged words. Whenever I caught one, I’d interrupt her to tell her about it. This would set us off…
When I first saw it in the backyard, I was horrified. My peony bush was infested with ants! They were crawling all over its tightly wadded flower buds… which, I knew from the year before, bloomed in a most striking fuchsia color. Upon closer examination, however, the buds appeared to be healthy. So what were…