I spent my high school years disparaging country music.  My best friend Sarah and I would make merciless fun of her dad, a bearded orthopedist who drove a shiny pick-up and only listened to 107.7 Hot Country.  Our favorite joke went:  “What happens when you play a country song backwards?” We delivered the punch-line in [...]

The heat wave catches us by surprise.  From the gloom of a cold, wet spring comes blazing sun, two girls frolicking in shorts and Crocs.  My energy lifts, the world expands, every day dawns full of possibility. We swim in the river, plant a sunflower house, eat juice popsicles in a “Girls’ Club” built out [...]