The First Day of the Year Michigan winter: snow and no color or light. Evelyn, Tom, and Miriam are in Italy. It looks so good! Last books o...

Wishing You a Happy New Year and a Look Back at 2025 May, 2025: Alice Graduates from University of Virginia, one of the highlights of the ye...

  The overpowering theme of this book by the only Icelandic Nobelist — Halldor K. Laxness — is hunger. It’s a hunger that modern readers hav...

From Zingerman’s website: official photo of what we bought. It’s always fun to see what delicious cakes, breads, and pastries you can get at...

 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Pretty good book! Too Long! Too much philosophizing. Too many intertwined stories that go on and on. Too ...

  Nat, our excellent host, carving the traditional roast beef while Len looks on. Individual Yorkshire puddings Carol pours the wine. Adam l...