Please welcome our new addition.

I found her in a dusty corner in one of the local antique shops months ago and thought our old Victorian house needed a proper Victorian lady to watch over things. She had no price tag and the proprietor didn’t remember having seen her before.

So of course I had to have her.

Five dollars later she went home with me. Today on a whim I hung her on a vacant nail in the foyer.

I notice every time I pass by that she is crooked.

I notice every time I straighten her that she is smiling….just a bit.

I notice every time that I catch her hint of a smile I stop and wonder what her secret is.

I hope in time, with enough frame straightening, she may let down her guard and whisper her story to me.