How are you doing? For real? I am stressed. I get up each day and try to comprehend the fresh hell that is greeting me in the headlines. I don’t know about you, but it feels to me sort of like the pandemic again- things are bad in this country and I wonder when the tide will turn. I am concerned about due process, the rule of law, the hate for the immigrant and the loss of constitutional separation of powers. For starters. I am also stressed about the state of our planet and the never ending piles of clothes that are filling up our landfills, and why we keep buying new cheap clothing, and why garment workers are unsafe...
The holidays are upon us, like it or not! As I write this I am waiting for pecans to toast in the oven, so I can make my seasonal spiced nuts. It’s one of the many traditions I have, like the church cookie swap and the advent calendar. It's also a time where I take out every holiday linen, decoration and serving platter of my mom’s. I will use her punch bowl, which is really kind of bulky and not an ideal way to serve the four people in my family. No matter. It makes me feel good. Her birthday is on Christmas Day; it’s always been her season. I know several people who have lost parents this year, and...
