NOTHING, REALLY

I’ve been meaning to write for days, DAYS, but I keep getting thwarted. Thwarted by children, by distractions, by headaches, by work, by laziness, by sleep. There are pussywillows blossoming and snowdrops. Pansies just went on sale at the nursery. It’s light out when I leave for work, and light out when I leave to go home (depending on the cloud cover, of course). Despite the crap weather (grey, rain, cold), the harbingers are everywhere, if you just keep your eyes open and your optimism on high: spring IS coming. It IS. We went to look at a car this...