Dear Friends and Readers,

I think as we all age, we spend time looking back as well as forward. I was thinking this morning of how much I loved sitting at the kitchen table writing out Valentine cards for every single classmate. This was elementary school, and the teacher had us all decorate white paper sacks from Lucedale Drug Store (I presume the store donated them.). We’d put our names on them and then decorate them with cut out hearts or colored cupids, flowers, butterflies, etc. Red,...