4/2: receiving

...three great notes about recent mailings to friends.

4/1: reading

...the students' comments on one another's altered pages.  They were perceptive and generous.

3/31: dropping

...a big mailing of pamphlets (40-ish envelopes) into the post office blue box this morning.

3/30: a sweet hour

...or so this morning.  I was drinking coffee and reading.  One cat was in my lap, one was in a cat-bed on a side-table next to my chair, one was on my footrest, and one was on the chair opposite mine.  We were quiet, content, and cozy.  As I read and they dozed, I finished The Ellsworth Assortment series by Christina Dudley.  It ended with a celebration of family, and that felt fitting because the cats and I were having our own sort of celebration too.

3/29: cooking

...a spinach tofu curry dish, a new-to-me recipe.

3/28: closely reading

...translations a friend had sent me, one a passage from Tacitus, another a passage from Thucydides.

3/27: cleaning

...the outside of the big windows in our main room.  It's something that Chris usually does, but I figured I could do it too.  So I did.

3/26: medicinal gin

I'm trying not to drink much alcohol these days, substituting Shirley Temples and other mocktail (not a word I like) concoctions, but today my arthritis was especially bad, and Chris suggested that I try just a tablespoon of gin, since it often helps.  And it did, even just a tablespoon.