Yesterday, my wife and I got our first "Crescent Hill Newsletter" in the mail. It's the March-April 2010 edition, so there's plenty of talk about Easter egg hunts. Because I know you're dying to know, there's also information for a March book discussion about Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" at the Crescent Hill Library (2762 Frankfort Ave.). I read that book in high school. Spoiler alert: one of the main characters commits suicide. Hello, spring!

“Only in the Highlands,” my husband grinned, as he picked up a hemp dog collar. Alba, our almost-year-old Samoyed, swished her fluffy white tail and passed by, uninterested. We were at Good Dogs & Co. on Bardstown Road collar-shopping, though not for the hemp variety.