Patty Lovell’s Molly Lou Melon is back and I’m so happy to see her. She’s not any taller and is still in the first grade but she shows us again that she’s the wisest girl on the planet. What makes her so, is simple: she stands tall, tells it like it is, and she listens to her grandma.

Hey it’s fall and I’m in my groove. But don’t get me wrong; I am a summer person through and through. I absolutely live for running with my dogs, biking and enduring that occasional mystery skin rash following a traipse through the exotic woods and fields near our house; it doesn’t get any better! I am also not forgetting the medicinal benefits a daily dose of vitamin D from our nearest star has in stopping me from a S.A.D. induced leap off the planet into the cold nothingness of space.