Valentines Day is the pink and brown cousin of Halloween. By this time next week, we’ll have poked the bottoms of the last of the lonely chocolates in the heart-shaped cardboard boxes, hoping that the square one is caramel and not something oozy like a cherry. When you’re not ...
The letters arrive in the mail most every day now, hand-addressed envelopes that appear to hold a personal letter, but no. They are unsolicited mail from businesses reaching out to remind me of the birthday that’s lurking out there like a doorway to a mysterious, confusing new world. ...
Has anyone else been a bit confused this week? Have you been shuffling around in your floppy pants, wondering what day it is? What I’ve described there is my own week, this stretch between the holidays that can be disorienting. But this year seems to be even more vexing because of where ...
Sizing down to a smaller place meant a smaller Christmas tree, and so when I saw the post on a social media site this week, I got out a box and started culling. The post was from a woman who is facing the holiday without a home. She was asking for help to give her several children – ...
