l have brought her a bouquet of crimson, yellow, and salmon-pink snapdragons. she likes the flowers very much. she likes the name. "snapdragons. it seems like an animal that's going to bite inc. but it's not an animal, it's a plant. that's a funny thing,"
i have bought food that i hope will please my mother, and that will be easy for her to eat: orzo salad with little pieces of crayfish cut into it, potato salad, small chunks of marinated tomatoes. i have bought paper plates with a rust-colored background, upon which are painted yellow and gold flowers and blue leaves.
my friends nola and gary come for my mother's birthday. when we are about to leave, i tell my mother that i'm going on vacation, mat i won't see her for three weeks, that 1 am going to the sea. "how will i stand that, how will i stand that's she says, but i know that a min