Foggy up yonder

I heart the Mounties and their reading cousins. The Year of Fog is the November Book of the Month for Walmart stores across Canada. This brings me back to my (exceedingly brief) Arkansas days, when a good-looking fellow from San Francisco and I taught creative writing to kids in rural schools through a program called Writers in the Schools, which was funded by Walmart. Which sort of means that the Waltons (not the Waltons Mountain Waltons, but the other ones) bankrolled my romantic trysts with the man-who-would-be-my husband.

I remember standing in line with him at a diner somewhere in rural Arkansas, waiting for our burger and shake (he introduced me to the black-and-white), thinking, “I’m going to marry this man, if I can get him to marry me.” Well, I did. He did. About ten years after that day in the diner, we had a baby, and our first trip outside of California after we had said baby just so happened to be to Vancouver. Which isn’t really connected, but sort of is. Everything comes full circle, eh?