When Abi (short for Abilene) was a wee little girl her mother taught her colors. They sat together on her parents' bed and identified the colors in the patchwork quilt her grandmother sewed. Red, green, blue, yellow, she loved them all. And then one day a patch wore thin and her mother sewed on a new patch in a new color! Abi's mother asked her what color it was. Abi said quite matter-of-factly that it was red. Her mother told her she was wrong. What! That can't be right. 'No, Mommy, it's...more
