as i ran last night, i thought about a visit to my grandmother's house when i was six. both grandmothers lived in the same small village of techlovice separated by two or three miles of poorly maintained road through the heart of the town ... my parents had gone for a vacation to the mountains, leaving my sister and me with my grandparents. one grandmother, my mother's mother, had a working farm, some cattle, sheep, and flower and vegetable fields that grandma picked late ...
