They don’t want anything more out of life than to do this great thing, this mindless feat, and reproduce so that the next generation can do this great thing, this mindless feat, and reproduce so that the next generation can do this great—
Hanna Ferguson
Hanna Ferguson is a nonfiction writer and poet whose work can be found in The Oneota Review and elsewhere. She's a recent graduate of Luther College and lives in Chicago with her husband and sweet kitty Minka.
An In-Progress Cookbook of Recipes That Stick to My Ribs
If you stand on a chair it will be in the way of your mother, so let her lift you onto the counter next to the glass pan into which she is laying noodles.