Under the Wire

Calf and Kid. Ever notice they both sound, when pronounced, like both begin with the same letter? Given my spelling prowess (spell check said prowuse was wrong), I may have actually interchanged the first letters on both words a few times. That’s why Sue proofs (profs?) all these stories before you see them.

I believe there is a reason that these two words, calf and kid, sound so similar. When you get right down to basics, they are a lot alike. I have always said, “Everything I know about people, I learned from a cow.” Most of what I know about kids, I learned from watching calves. Only had fo...