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Joan Ganz Cooney | 03/30/2009 3:20 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney's Fearless Mother

Joan Ganz Cooney
Rattlesnakes, when I was kid at our summer house in the Arizona mountains. My mother, who was utterly fearless on her own behalf but anxious and frightened on behalf of her children, used to say, "Stand back, children," and then she’d hurl boulders at them until she had killed them.

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M J
When I was visiting in Arizona once, I saw a Roadrunner do its "Meep, Meep" lower its head and swoosh, race across the road in the desert.
By M J on 03/30/2009 3:46 pm