Articles written by Kathleen Depuydt

Kathleen DePuydt, Prairie Poet|Apr 10, 2019

In a recent phone conversation with my mom, Helen DePuydt, we managed to end up talking about mice. It is funny how conversations will meander into different topics ending on one that becomes lasting memory. My mom told me about a recent infestation of mice in her house, which isn’t surprising as the house she currently lives in was built in 1965 and is surrounded by crop fields. My mom said, “That reminds me. In the first 12 years we lived in our old house, there wasn’t one mouse. Then one summer, however, mice started to take up residence in...