One of the cuties on my list, Vern Yip, will be here tomorrow to appear at the Capital Home & Garden Show. It’s a homecoming of sorts, as Vern grew up here in McLean, Virginia. Gee, my chances of meeting, befriending, romancing him just leapt from impossible to nearly impossible.
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