
My mother would say, "Do you really need all those things, Dinnie? They're just things. He'd always say, "I found us a great place! Wait'll you see it!" Each time we moved, we had fewer boxes, not more. My mother would start packing, and we'd wait for a phone call from him that would tell us it was time to join him. He called himself a Jack-of-all-trades (Jack was his real name), but sometimes there wasn't any trade in whatever town we were living in, so off he would go in search of a job somewhere else. My father was a trucker, or sometimes a mechanic or a picker, a plucker or painter.


Bloomability Chapter One First Life In my first life, I lived with my mother, and my older brother and sister, Crick and Stella, and with my father when he wasn't on the road.
