#Dad

A Classic Love Triangle: a Dad, a Dog, and Some Peppers

by Brittany This is Leo (middle). He’s a weiner dog that likes to eat my dad’s pepper plants. I wasn’t there when Leo first tried my...

Hydrangea: A Tiny (Plant) Love Story

by Mark Brunson My stepmother is a painter. Mostly she paints plants, especially hydrangeas. When she and Dad married (he was 87), a...

玉 (yù)

by Isabel Acevedo One of my earliest memories of my Ama, my mother’s mother, is of her wrist: impossibly smooth skin always enclosed by a...

Venus Fly Teacher

by Tony Chang My mom is an incredible plant caretaker—she just knows how to make things grow. She has the ability to pick plants from the...

The time a bird named a flower for me

by Ben Sikes When I was a new dad and living in Louisiana, I was working hard and trying to figure out how I was going to do this thing...