I’m not really a jewelry person, and I’m definitely not a surprise-me person. It’s a miracle that I still have my wedding ring, not because I don’t absolutely love it, but because there was the time in Florida that drug-addled teenagers robbed us blind, but my ring had fallen into a crack and was spared. [...]
It has long been my ambition in life to not be like Whitey’s drunk dad in Follow Me Boys. Instead I’d like to be the inspirational, compassionate, Boy Scout-leading Fred MacMurray. But when it comes to gift-giving, I am just as inept as poor Whitey’s dad, bringing cartons of melting ice cream late to the [...]