It’s the happ-happiest season of all! I love the holidays, and this year, I got to put up my trees, get presents bought mostly in advance (although I’m still delivering them). I even found something for Russ that he told me he liked. He’s the hardest person to buy for...

I really didn’t care much for dolls, but there were a few I really loved: my Drowsy Doll (which I’ve written a poem about), a little black doll who was blind in one eye (her plastic eye was missing) named Betty (named for my Mamaw’s sister who gave her to me), and my...