The woman at the farmers market stall watched me circle back for the third time, eyeing her pile of sugar pumpkins like I was trying … Read more

I wasn’t trying to make anything special. Honestly, I’d stopped by my neighbor’s house to grab a book I’d loaned her months ago, and the … Read more

I was standing in the frozen food aisle at the grocery store last Tuesday when someone walked by with one of those cardboard cup holders—you … Read more

There used to be this tiny bakery tucked behind a vintage furniture shop on the edge of downtown—the kind of place you’d walk right past … Read more

I was at the hardware store, of all places, picking up a new furnace filter last December. The guy at the counter, an older man … Read more