Well my parents were German immigrants and I was the firstborn. Actually, my sister first and then I was second. And my parents loved the Ozarks and they went off in the Ozarks. And they loved the beautiful rocks they would bring back for a rock garden and to put perimeter between the lawn and the flower garden. My mother always had a rose garden. And my mother told me that growing up crawling around the backyard, one of my second words. The first one was, “Mama.” The second one was, “Mama, bug. Mama, bug.” Because I would lift the rocks and there would be bugs underneath. So I was always fascinated with things that were alive.
