Just to catch up, things I have been doing recently (including at Thanksgiving):

Performances attended:

Messiah with the Handel and Haydn Society, which I'm embarrassed to say I knew nothing about before (I've never lived in Boston, but I have visited there a lot). It's their 200th anniversary this year!

It's a Wonderful Life with the visiting ( Read more... )

I'm doing a gluten-free diet for a month (just as an experiment, to see if it makes any difference to the chronic blahs) and this has been no problem in the week I've been at it so far, but yesterday it snowed. If this seems a meaningless juxtaposition, I beg to differ. When it snows enough here that everything shuts down and no one goes to work ( ( Read more... )

Time for Tea Kindle edition.

Anyone who wants to promote the book, please do so! Probably easiest to just use my website, since that's got links to everything else plus the sample chapters ( Read more... )

Our neighbors' granddaughter just came by trick-or-treating; she is a vampire-ghost-princess, a splendid example of consolidation. As usual, we won't get a lot of kids and the candy supply will be insufficiently diminished and will have to migrate to J's office tomorrow. We've already taken all the Heath bars out of the mix for us, but aside from ( Read more... )

1) We have been making Very Healthy Bread. This started when J. had done a batch of beer and had spent barley grains left over, and I said, I hear Growlers (local brewpub; neighbors' son works there) puts those in rolls they serve in the restaurant, why don't you add them to the bread you said you were going to make? And he did. And then I made ( Read more... )