A few years back when the island camp was still in use, Uncle Byron called me around midnight one night. He was out with a group of men on an all night fishing trip. He said, "Come to Algodões quick! A man needs to go to the hospital." He didn't have much time to talk and it was very hard to hear with the wind and waves. But I got ready to go. All the boys were in bed already. I debated as to what to do with them. I decided to wake up William and tell him that I was leaving just so that if anyone woke up they wouldn't be scared thinking I had disappeared. Then I got dressed and went out to the car. I noticed my neighbor was still up with a light on. So I clapped at her door and told her what was going on. That way if she heard loud screaming children she could come over and see what was what. I would have been better off to have just locked the door and left Good Ol' Blackie dog guarding the house! My neighbor decid...
Just a mama trying to bloom where she is planted in the dry Northeast of Brazil.