There are rules to eating cinnamon rolls. Not written rules, of course. More like the unspoken kind, the slow living kind. You don’t just eat a cinnamon roll. You make it an experience.

I am a terrible gift-giver. Every gift I give, I want it to mean something. I can’t just run into a store and grab whatever is near the checkout line. There’s a whole internal checklist running in my head: Can I support a local shop? Will they actually use this, or will it end up in a drawer? Is it unique? Does it remind me of them?