She systematically gobbled up peanut after peanut in the unrelenting heat, packing her checks till they looked like they would burst. Then we offered one of the cherries we were munching. She snatched it, removed the stem, spun it around and made a bee-line to her burrow, the prize between her teeth.
I retired from public school teaching after happily spending twenty eight years playing in Kindergarten. Now I fill my days watching cat antics, taking endless...