Happy New Year! May 2012 be non-apocalyptic!
I’ve been helping my mom with her usual holiday cookie baking, although we’re doing it somewhat belatedly this year. So far the list is: brownies, pecan bars, walnut bars, lemon bars, chocolate truffles, and what my family calls briars. I haven’t been able to find any other similarly named recipe on the internet (which means it must not exist, right?) so I figured I’d better keep it secret. They are adorable though, aren’t they?
The other thing I’ve finally had time to do is some proper reading. Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer was wonderful and inspiring and made me think I need to be better about writing correspondance. It also made me feel better about my (often checked) love of parentheticals. If Edward Gorey can sound charming doing it, there’s hope for me yet. Next up: David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. And at some point I hope to get around to 1Q84, although I’m afraid I might be a little disappointed.
Caught this little girl chewing on a rogue can of whipped cream this morning. Going back to Ithaca and living without dogs again will be much less eventful.
