Half-Loves to a Whole New Year

New year’s eve at midnight. We just got home from delivering food downtown, tagging the kids along with us.

Downtown is a place called Eastwood, a so-called “township” of glitzy condominium and office buildings around malls and manicured outdoor spaces. After two pandemic Christmases when Eastwood went dark as did the whole country, thinking it scandalous to drape anything with twinkling lights, Eastwood as…