Stealing Basil

But I needed it for my dinner. Really.

Photo credit: Catherine Dunn-Gilbert, author

I just stole some basil. Well, technically the random woman who walked up while I was staring regretfully at it did.

You see there’s this walk we do regularly with our dogs. One of the houses in the row of stilt homes on the ocean (yes, really, stilts), that we usually walk by has a side driveway and along it a planter box full of herbs. Last year…