You know that Bare Naked Ladies song “If I Had a Million Dollars?” Well, if I had a million dollars, I’d spend it the way Maxine and Jonathan Marshall did. Their Marshall Fund brings smart book authors and well-versed poets to town on a regular basis. And twice a year, the butterflies come, too. The […]

The other day at Brownies, we talked about traditions. The girls went around the room, naming their own, and I talked a little about  Hanukkah. (That wasn’t on the agenda, but I whined after I heard the troop leader say she was going to have each girl put an ornament on her tree. It’s hard […]