Tag Archives: ornament shards

2009

Dearest Recipients:      A heavily-adorned balsam fir shades the kitchen table. Glass shards of broken ornaments cling to the webbing between Tom’s frog-like toes. Sub-zero temperatures and deep snow drifts turn the backyard squirrels to peanut-eating frost wraiths. Thanksgiving leftovers change colors to signal the approach of holiday letter-writing season.      In January, we traversed …