December 14, 2013: Need New Tires

Dominica and I were up before eight at the Hilton Garden Inn in Norwalk. Dominica got up and looked outside and was dismayed to discover that it had snowed during the night and was still snowing. This isn’t good. My car, the Chevy Spark, is bad in snow and Dominica’s Acadia’s tires are in terrible …

December 12, 2013: Sleepy Evening

Today I started reading “The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria” by Marlena Blasi. Very cold day today. Good day for reading about a sunny day in central Italy. Got home and spent the evening with the girls again while Dominica went out to go shopping. She had to return some stuff from …

December 11, 2013: And the New Couch Is Broken (A Little)

Quite cold today but no snow on the roads. No issues driving. Everything in Texas is still frozen. The reports from there are that they are still under some serious ice. We are quite glad that we got out before this all happened. Hard to believe that Texas is getting a much worse winter than …

December 10, 2013: The New Basement Couch Arrives

I woke up around two after a bizarre dream about moving from California to, somewhere, and having forgotten to move my books and needing to hire a taxi to drive me there to get them and driving back with them in a taxi.  But once home falling asleep and forgetting to unload the taxi and …