Reading List 2016

Politics, etc   2 Audacity of Hope, Barak Obama The American Constitution and Bill of Rights Edward Abbey    7 The Best of Edward Abbey Journey Home Abbey’s Road Down the River Desert Solitaire The Brave Cowboy (Fiction) All the West that Remains, Gessner Fiction  10 Light Action in the Caribbean, Lopez (short stories) Platte…

Alive!

I have not frozen solid, although it seems possible some days when temps drop below zero. The daytime high last week was minus 4 degrees, but I have enough layers and wool socks to keep me alive at the Arctic Circle. My sluggish blogging pace relates to the new coloring book craze. I started coloring…

First Word of the Day for 2016: First-foot

Happy New Year! I awoke to a wonderful, appropriate new word in my inbox (from dictionary.com): First-foot the first person to cross the threshold of a house on New Year’s Day. the first person met after starting out on the day of an important occasion. Quote: Custom held that the most fortunate “firstfoot” on a…