Dancing with Uncle Virgil
Chapter One
Mama puts the Classified Section of the newspaper on the kitchen table and starts circling ads. She puts numbers beside them so we’ll know the order of the sales according to the intrigue of their ad. When it's my turn to map out the Saturday route, I go for neighborhoods. A logical driving sequence, I go from Point A to Point B. But that's not for Mama. She goes from Point A to Point D and then to Point B—back and forth through the county. She goes for ad content, not fuel efficiency. She'll drive me twenty miles to Bucksnort, then through Thornton and end up two blocks from her house. ... read more
