The Taste of Mud Pies
How many of you remember what mud pies tasted like? No, really, … you never ate them? Well, I was a country girl, born in the post-war 40’s into a self-reliant middle class family, and I guess there just wasn’t much to do. Inventiveness was high on the list of activities. I rode in the apple-crate express train in the backyard to nowhere. So, it wasn’t a far stretch to use whatever else was handy to pass away the long, lonely hours in a three-year-old’s day.