America, there are better days ahead

America, there are better days ahead

This week’s column was supposed to be a celebration of a wonderful little toy store in a joyful Midwestern town. A store that, heartbreakingly, is scheduled to close this week. But circumstances intervened. Yellow Springs, Ohio, is the kind of place that makes you smile the moment you step onto its main street. The kind of Main Street Generation X — and every generation before us — assumed would always exist. The kind that, to my children’s gene…