The Pickled Egg: Life is Good (Even When It Isn't):

She is seventy years old. She lives in a little house. Her husband of fifty years passed away last year, and she misses him every single day - but she also just made the best batch of cranberry sauce of her life, a cardinal has taken up residence on her fence post, and her neighbor across the street is possibly the grumpiest man she has ever met, which she finds deeply wonderful.
The Pickled Egg is a year in the life of a woman who has decided, against all reasonable evidence, that things ar...