Taking time to pick the perfect gift

Thanksgiving is gone, Black Friday is gone, and we are now in the throws of Cyber Monday.

I don’t know about you, but Cyber Monday doesn’t seem to have the appeal that Black Friday does. Perhaps it does. Perhaps because it is “cyber” everyone is locked away indoors huddled over computer screens in search of that one item they can’t live without and we, that are out and about, do see them. That’s probably it.

I succumbed to neither day, thankfully. I did not get up in the cold November morning and trudge off to a store only to be blinded by the overly bright fluorescent lights upon entering. No...