Coordinates

  The coordinates are 27.9789 °N 97.3986 °W. Those are the coordinates of where my heart will always be. Those are the coordinates to where I was born, where my parents and family still live and the coordinates on my bracelet that I got my mother and I for Valentine’s Day. Her bracelet has my coordinates and mine have hers, that way we are “Always Together,” just as the inscription that is engraved on the inside says. Sometimes it is hard to find a place or a material possession that can make you feel nostalgic. Whenever I’m feeling a bit homesick I like to visit the Greystone Mansion . The landscape reminds me of my...