doing my travelling for me

Dear Savvy Traveler,

I'm hoping that the appearance of your collection of souvenir plates at my local thrift-emporium means that you have undergone a redecoration phase, and not that your heartless children carted your precious mementos off to the curb before you were even served your first tray of jell-o at the assisted living facility.

Either way, I want you to know that your keepsakes have found a good home alongside my Mississippi-magnolia-desert plate, a gilded dinner-plate from Palm Springs, and a serving tray from the Sooner state.