Sunny Flowers For A Sick Girl

A surprise box of flowers can brighten up the darkest of kitchens.

Rectangle Bar Of Spice!

What a wonderful surprise a bar of soap makes.

More Than Simply Ink On Paper

There is a particularly delightful rush of emotion that occurs when you realize that you are passing on one of your favorite childhood books to someone who may one day feel the same way about it as you do.

Tangible Yet Intangible

Once, when I was young, a boy offered me the gift of winter.

I Haven't The Words

I was nearly moved to tears tonight when my boyfriend's mother (and the mother of my heart) gave me her first edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters To A Young Poet.

Kicking Off Four Days Of Christmas!

Having Christmas two days early is a lot of fun.

Shoddy Workmanship

I outright refuse to purchase a mass market paperback and will go to great lengths to replace all such editions given to me with with trade paper or cloth versions.

Five Dollar Wisdom

Everybody needs help sometime.

It's The Rarity That Makes Them So Precious

Kind words, freely given and with no underlying intention, are often the most piercing and far reaching of them all.

Battle or Such Is His Gift To Me

At the end of a day filled with wonderful activities that which fought to keep my mind in the present and away from the abyss, his final smile and words, "Birthday Girl!" were enough to carry me through the night on the wings of hope.

Retrospective Regret

No one should ever be sick on their birthday, but that doesn't stop me from wishing that I'd taken the (albeit small) gift to her when I was informed that she was feeling better.