My Best Valentine's Day Ever Should Have Been the Worst

"There's a pot pie in the oven made by a guy named Cookie Puss, who works at the hardware store. It's 7 degrees outside. We have plastic hanging over the kitchen doorway to block the dust from the sander. There's beer, and Kid Rock on the radio. We make Pigpen look clean. It's our Detroit Valentine's day." --my Facebook post, February 14, 2015 In the dead of winter a few years ago my husband and I were in the thick of renovating a big old house in Detroit, a triplex we bought for a price I still...