Shavin: Nothing anywhere all at once
I often chide my husband for not being able to find things that turn out to be right in front of him.

I often chide my husband for not being able to find things that turn out to be right in front of him.

Last week I was working in my upstairs office when I heard four very loud gunshots. I jumped out of my chair and went to the window. I worried there was a shooter tromping around in our woods, picking off our deer.

A few days before Christmas, I accidentally locked myself in the neighbor's chicken coop.

A few weeks ago I had a car accident. I won't go into detail, because that's not the point of this column. The point of this column is what happened afterward.

I am not a woo-woo kind of person.
Sometimes the unpleasant stuff goes down better with sugar.

My husband and I bought ourselves a red pingpong table last December.

As sickness and injury go, I've been pretty lucky in my life.

My dad and I had a running joke about my dogs. Actually, he had a joke, and my dogs and I were the butt of it. It went like this:

I have been struggling to write the same story for three weeks.
