My Love Affair With Miss Zebco

I loved her, lost her, and found her once more.

I fished many a farm pond as a boy. When I left my red-varnished cane pole for Miss Zebco, I fell in love. I filled my Johnson & Johnson first aid kit turned tackle box with plastic worms, shysters, cork, and hooks. We went wherever Miss Zebco went. That was long ago.

Growing up ruined things. Time the silent thief stole my life and I lost the whereabout…