In Search of Dessert

A few months ago, something amazing happened. The mother of our landlady invited us to dinner. This was sort of a badge of honor, to have been acknowledged, singled out, and then invited; this was was downright neighborly of her. I was a little nervous, because behind Gigi’s wrinkle-flecked smiling invitation, there was an alternative [...]

During the gray winter months, I sort of inched around like an injured worm. I told Jon, he could keep his "Look on the bright side," and "Find yourself a way to like it," to himself. I’m not a winter-gal, and that’s that. So why did he think I’d be out frolicking in the snow, [...]