Sometimes, despite all the
fumbling and bumbling
through a learning experience,
good things happen.

You know that old adage “Big things come in small packages”? While it’s not always true (I knew the hubs hadn’t bought me a new Audi A5 for our anniversary when he handed me the bouquet of flowers — but, hey! Flowers!), there are times, events even, when you realize how the adage came to be in the first place.

Something like this happened to me last week. My darling and I went to dinner Monday night...