By Michelle Cutler
When clearing out some of my mother’s file cabinets last year, I discovered a folder of my second-grade homework assignments tucked between last century’s tax returns. Flipping through colored crepe paper collages and Halloween ghosts rendered in negative space, I was instantly transported back to simpler times. A crayon-rendered diagram of a corn stalk, accompanied by block letters explaining how pollen travels down the silk to pollinate the egg and produce a single ker...
Published on October 02, 2025 04:00