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I don’t like having blood drawn.

I don’t like anything about doctors’ appointments except the declaration, “You’re fine.”

At the end of August, however, I headed toward a routine appointment and observed a flurry of teachers returning to their desks and their duties.

No, I can’t believe it’s time for school to start: where did the summer go?

Better still, where did the months of January through July go?

Those thoughts were traveling circuitously through my brain when I opened the doors to the doctors’ office and found the girls of my past.

You may have heard the old proverb “good fences make good neighbors.” Robert Frost made the phrase popular in his poem “Mending Wall.” The debate may have begun there, but I say the same can be true of a good hedge. I love my neighbors, personally, but hedges can bring many other benefits to the landscape.