First off, I don’t know how this smoothie ended up being green but to say that my beet was striped white and pink and didn’t seem to have the usual beet qualities of staining everything they come in contact with. …

When I was 13, we moved to Chelsea, Michigan. It was a small town by most measures of the imagination, the kind of place you might want to raise a family. Looking back, I didn’t know what I had because …