Be Happy

Anna Lefler and I were having one of our freewheeling phone conversations when living emerged as the topic at hand. Lazy summers. Long meals. Deck sitting. Novel mapping. She wondered (out loud) if I'd ever read Barbara Holland's Endangered Pleasures. I confessed (a mumble) that I hadn't. Three days later (count 'em) Holland's book arrived at my door. I heard the box hit the stoop. I thought to myself, Oh no she didn't.

But she had.

Anna had also, this being an entirely separate matter an