When I was seventeen my mother's good friend Ellen had a baby. Ellen and her husband lived in a big old house in the foothills. When Ellen went into labor in the middle of the night I…

Happy Birthday Shinga Binga Boo! Twenty One in Willows. Remembering this day that you were born- I had picked wild strawberries in the woods… I guess hiking into the woods, then bending over and over again, while picking wild strawberries,…