About a month ago, a single white petunia showed up in my family’s waning vegetable garden. Neither me nor any of my immediate neighbors planted any petunias, so it was neat to find it there. I told my children about it but kept forgetting to show them. Over the past few weeks, the petunia has [...]

This past Saturday, as is the case on many Saturdays, my children were home. We spent the morning shopping for winter clothes and shoes, while the afternoon was spent at a park and then the lake. My children had a grand time, and so did I. But as the afternoon wore on, I began to [...]