Mother’s Day Walk with the Ducks

It is a classic image: A mom walking in the park with her child, watching the ducks. In an urban park, the ducks would be mallards – drab brown females and the green-headed males. “Look at the duckies, sweetie.” On this Mother’s Day, after my son in Spokane declares, Happy Mother’s Day and Love You, I…

Material Moments

I discovered last August that the flagship Joann Fabrics store is about 10 miles north of Akron. It sits in all it’s gorgeousness in a grassy corporate complex, with the store on the right and the corporate offices to the left. The first time I saw the store, I swore that glorious strains of classical…