First job at the Village Pharmacy
I've mentioned in a previous blog that I had an English professor, Sandra Humble Johnson, who taught us the concept of landscape. This concept went beyond "landscape" in literature, to personal landscapes. It was the idea that sometimes a person moves and discovers a new place in the world that speaks to them, resonate with them so much, they might stay there the rest of their lives. Even if it's a place the writer has lived all their life, or not, their love and passion for that landscape pervades their writing. This came up with Louise Erdrich. Anyway, I have been thinking about landscape a lot lately, even before the pandemic. Ohio might not be the jazziest place to live. The weather be often awful and changeable. And yet I love it so much. Maybe it's because I've never known anything different. Maybe it's because my closest family is here. Maybe I just don't like change. I seem able to find good things in every season, and even when...