My Starter is ready and I have to make Amish loaves today—dedicated to Marlene, Thank you, dear.

My prime task today is a new draft of that introduction (preface) I’ve been trying to write. My friend and mentor offered to read it for me and he told me what I suspected—and you know—i’m too down. I am not cheerful; I am not optimistic; I am not entertaining. I am not amusing.

Well, he is right. I am not amused And it shows.

So today I will look on the sunny side of the street (under the snow). You can help. Tell me a joke. Tell me a happy story. Send me a smile. Please!

I’ll write again….

Not there yet. I’ve been watching “hilarious” moments captured on late night talk shows, I realize, to cheer me up, jar me loose so I can get lighter.

Something else will help. I took delivery today of two new books I ordered from Indigo:

How Iceland Changed the World; The Big History of a Small Island, by Egill Bjarnason. Penguin, 2021

How to Live Iceland, by Nina Björk Jónsdóttir and Edda Magnus. White Lion Publishing, 2021

Wonderful! We go on, we go on….