Snow Day and Merry Holiday Wishes

Woke up to snow this morning, which is surely making the children of Seattle very happy as they will have a much-beloved (and rare, here) Snow Day! As for me, I’m just happy my husband had the foresight to mail off all our Christmas packages late yesterday! I’ve got hot gluten-free blueberry crumbcake muffins in the oven and nowhere important to be, as well as a stack of good books to review (new Rachel Zucker and Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec.) Outside my window at 7 AM I already here the happy shrieks of kids playing in the very picturesque (and probably gone by noon) white stuff.

I was happy to see Natalie Diaz read a couple of days ago courtesy of local publisher Copper Canyon and really enjoyed hearing her voice. We’re a lucky city in terms of who we get coming to town to read, I think.

This holiday I am grateful for the following: being able to walk, being able to eat more foods without sudden anaphylaxis fits, a great group of creative and encouraging friends, a husband who is better at domestic stuff than I am (I think he baked about a hundred Christmas cookies for various friends’ gift bags!), a family who is for the most part healthy and happy (even if some of them are on different continents right now) and a feeling of hope for 2014. How about you? I am wishing you all a very merry holiday!!

From “Community” “That’s What Christmas is For:” (“Thanks, Lost!”)