Slugs are scrumptious, too. Up in the garden, we pick cukes and zucchini, harvesting into the dark. Bats swoop through the sunflowers, and I pluck June bugs from the basil until it's time for bed.

ASL doesn’t have a direct translation of every English word, he told me. If you want to sign “desperate,” you might just sign the word “want,” but with the appropriate facial and body ...