The Creek“Don’t go to the creek without your shoes on,” Mom would say on many a summer day before she left for work in the morning when my older brother Jay and I were boys. It was good advice, but we didn’t necessarily pay much attention to it. Back then, paying attention to good advice wasn’t high on our list of priorities.We were living in a trailer home behind my grandparents’ house, just Mom, Jay and me. When school was out, most days would find me and my brother, along with whatever dogs we had that chose to go and ...