sundress

Every spring, I get the urge to buy something new: a sundress, a pretty blouse or something hopeful after a long, drab winter.

Although this week’s hot weather may have prompted an early appearance of flip-flops and sundresses, forecasters warn this stretch of heat isn’t indicative of an early start to springtime.

Fischer steps out of the trailer in a sundress, holding a baby monitor showing a sleeping Natasha.

Just as the weather calls us to long evenings outdoors in short sleeves and sundresses, mosquitoes show up.

We engage in this back-and-forth every year, whenever the season changes, me twirling around in a sundress, her grimacing under a comically large-brimmed hat.