Like Kayron, I’ve spent many a Feb 14 alone and enjoying my solitude. I’ve spent it with friends. I’ve spent it with The Mc at a local pizza place, bucking tradition.

This year, because he’s such an amazing cook and keeps talkingtalkingtalking (but never doing, you understand) about taking some class somewhere to learn more - like how to make a reduction sauce - I took him to The Cooks Warehouse for a hands-on dinner. There were cocktails. There was a red wine reduction sauce. There were puff pastries with andouille sausage. There were skrimps (*shudder*). There was duck. There were fudge tartlets which are apparently a tongue twister for me because when I said it to him before we went in it came out “fartlet”. He instantly wanted to call my brother.

Tonight it’s his turn, and he’s taking me to the Gordon Lightfoot concert at the Cobb Energy Center. Oh sure, snicker all you want.

Me? I’ll be sitting there having flashbacks to the six of us jammed in the family (really Dad’s company issued) Oldsmobile, and sitting perched between my folks on the front bench seat because I was the littlest. I’ll be remembering the mushy blue-gray velor seats and the 8 track playing “If you could read my mind…” which, btw, still gives me glassy eyes.

My point - if I had one - was to find out what your favorite VD gift was (given or received), because it’s never too early to start planning for next year.