(Originally published at Tell Your True Tale. Published here with the author’s permission.)
(Originally published at Tell Your True Tale at Your Library, a site by the L.A. County Library. Published here with the author’s permission.)
Home- the place in which one’s domestic affections are centered.
Home.
When I was 10 years old they trimmed the tree in our back yard. Its verdant branches were reduced bare brown bones. The broad leaves and purple flowers that once painted my sky lay flat on the floor. I nearly had a panic attack. I…