EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Phyllis Hoffman DePiano EDITOR Melissa Lester SENIOR WRITER Karen Callaway ASSOCIATE EDITOR Leslie Bennett Smith ASSISTANT EDITOR Kassidy Abernathy SENIOR COPY EDITOR Meg Lundberg COPY EDITOR Michele Moore EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Lydia Mc

I have always been in love with antique blue-and-white anything. Be they lovely bone china plates that feel like silk in my hands or majestic Chinese temple jars, I cherish them all. It’s interesting—I grew up in red rooms with no blue in sight. But

When Queen Anne’s lace blankets the meadow, spinning like saucers on slender stalks, I remember that summer. Following a year of challenges and disappointments, my parents announced the unimaginable: they were buying me a horse. No middle school alge