There was a front yard full—full—of pine trees at my childhood home. I can’t recall ever having one elsewhere. Now I have this one. This is a volunteer that was under a swing once upon a time. I’ve been looking after it since it was a wee sprout (which mostly means not hitting it with … Read more
I went by Dad’s after church to say Happy Father’s Day. He’d been looking for something last night that had him going through remembrances and keepsakes, and he found a note from my mom that she wrote him before they were married. Well, it was sort of a note. It was a piece of notebook … Read more
Lea, Mia, Aaron, and I had lunch at Pho V Nam today. This is a full-service Vietnamese restaurant that opened about two weeks ago in the northern end of Village Shoppes of Madison (where Publix is) on County Line Rd. (Needless to say, particularly with the closure of Saigon on Madison Boulevard, this new restaurant … Read more