Call me crazy, but even though there are lots of enjoyable parts of summer, I absolutely adore autumn: it’s definitely the superior season in my opinion. Here’s why, in no particular order: 1. Sweatshirts and jeans 2. Hot cocoa early in the morning 3. The colors 4. Walking the dog without the threat of heat stroke 5. Caramel apples 6. Blankets 7. Season premieres of my favorite tv shows 8. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 9. Soup 10. My birthday What about you? What’s your season?
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Silver.
This one’s for Jim. The idea that it has been a whole quarter of a century since we got married in that dusty little office of Norfolk, Virginia’s Justice of the Peace is something I am having trouble absorbing. While clearly it makes sense that twenty five years have passed–what with having lived in six homes in three cities, having raised two nearly-grown boys, and seeing just a *hint* of gray hair on both of our heads–at the same time it feels like I have just blinked a couple of times and, well, here we are. When we got married, I had just turned eighteen and you were almost twenty.…