Almost every year, until I started hauling off to fun places on the opposite side of the globe, my Dad and I would pick an evening and go Christmas shopping together in Freeport, ME.  Shopping was followed by a hearty dinner...

I like old: old places, old music, old movies.... which is probably why I haven't been able to hear anything in my head but "Oklahoma is the place to be.... Farm life is the life for me..." since we entered...

Well, that didn't last long. Evie enjoys school but... she now has a mortal enemy.  There is a kid she hates more than anything else she has ever hated (she's only ever 'hated' some veggies and a bee that stung...