A couple weeks before Halloween, I was driving to work and noticed they were putting holiday lights on the trees that line Mill Avenue, the main drag in our college town. I started to harrumph — and I stopped myself. This year, I vowed, I will not complain about how early the holidays start. I […]

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for many things, including a man named Robert Polk. I didn’t know what to expect, when I decided to start this blog on Sophie’s fifth birthday. Ray (who rarely, if ever, reads the blog — who can blame him, he lives it) announced immediately that it would go viral. I knew […]