A Blog Entry?!?

Ah yes, there is this blog thing. With readers who are probably feeling neglected. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Is Erik struggling with some hardship? Sickness? No. And no. Melanie and Amalia have slight colds, but all is well here in Sacramento (where we are hanging out until Monday). Today was a gloriously clear day, with a brisk wind to remind us that it is, indeed, winter. We have been to the Crocker Art Museum, where Amalia got to do a crafts event (and painted two watercolors that make her Babbo very proud), and Babbo got to look at some fantastic paintings. We saw our friend off at the station. We cooked another big dinner for some other old friends.

After everyone went to bed (I am the lone night owl here), I got to sip espresso and read a hundred pages of Eugenides' Middlesex, which is a fascinating book. I will report more on it when I am finished. Tonight I was planning on getting back to work, but the reality is that when I go to bed, there will probably not be a speck more pigment on any paper than there is now. It is all I can do to break out of vacation mode to update the blog.

Tomorrow is another day, and I will have to do some painting, or at least drawing. And then I will probably bore you with an art post (does anyone read those anyway?), or maybe a rant.

Recipe? Goose pancetta? Perhaps.

Meanwhile, please continue to have a Blessed and Merry Christmas season!