Where did it go

Honestly, Christmas really snuck up on me this. year. I also just noticed I haven’t posted at all this month. I meant to! Each day I’d think about it and the holidays would instead rear their lovely head.

I hope this season, however you celebrate it, has found you well and, after the various rushes and must-dos, joyous. I can’t speak for others, but I know that every one of my adult Christmases finds me both high and low, frazzled and content, hurried and happily lapped up in the music of the season.

In all of those Christmas months (and there have been, gratefully, many), I have baked cookies once. Maybe twice. It’s on my list every year, though. Does that count?

I have collected a few gems in the past month I would love to share with you.

The original cast of Hamilton celebrated the ten-year anniversary of this stellar production. I never ever tire of it and the genius behind it.

Quite the cupcakes. I think I shall go into the kitchen and make them. Easy peasy. (wink wink)

Leaves and butterfly wings.

I randomly came across an old favorite that I am certain I posted a few years ago, but it is enjoyable and enlightening. It’s a refreshing and witty but truth-telling graduation speech from Tim Minchin.

“Be hard on your opinions. (A famous person) once said, ‘Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.’”

One of the best inventions of the digital era, IMHO. Pinterest. I collect ideas and have added to the holiday collection. You may find something you like as well. This is my Pinterest site, and a board of some of my own work (although I suck at keeping up with it.) Beware, though. Pinterest can swallow your day and doesn’t care.

I have quite a pile of books to be read. Hopefully, after the Christmas rush, I can get to them since most are library books (and always on their shelf I keep telling myself.) These are six I am currently reading, but I have to tell you: every once in awhile a book comes along that I savor so much it’s all I read until I’m done. The first one here, Broken Harbor, is SO good…I can’t figure out how it will end though it seems clear from the start. I love the dialogue between the two detectives, a veteran and his new partner, a rookie. Honestly, I don’t know how writers do it. And this one, Tana French, has a ton of books under her belt. This is the first of hers I have enjoyed immensely. I like the Dublin setting, too.