Artwork: “lady liberty” by Kirk Stansbury.

Mrs. Baum didn’t consider herself a political woman. While she considered her neighbors’ volunteering and canvassing efforts “admirable” in public, she privately found their incessant use of their luxuriously landscaped yard as a political display to be quite irksome and, if anything, “dangerously provocative.”

Artwork: “Surrender to the Flow” by Kelly Saunders Art.

Let me confess—I have a particular idiosyncrasy that sets me apart from most “normal” people…