Buffalo Rock, from the Garden of the Gods, where I took the folks Christmas Eve
So Mom and Dad and I went shopping at Walgreen's. Mom, who has had an earful of my financial and romantic woes and in fact some years ago decided that mood-altering chemicals would probably have done me a world of good as a youngster, saw a desktop fountain on sale at the register."That's what I should get you, Richard," she said. "A Tranquility Fountain."
"Ma," I said, "in ten minutes I'd be trying to drown myself in that thing."
