@Katherine – I do appreciate the gear! Since I’m running on roads most of the time, the problem is less the snow than the drivers in the snow who often act like it’s the first time they’ve ever encountered such precipitation. Today will likely be a treadmill day just because of timing. I could run outside this afternoon – I think the roads will be clear – but I have other stuff going on.

Ha! It could happen — when I was pregnant with my first child, my mom dug out the cross-stitch alphabet sampler she started when she was pregnant with me … and finished when I was 13. I love it even more because of its story!

I have not read Autumn, but I thought your comment about throwing in Brexit to seem contemporary was interesting. I’m not a fan of when a book contains too many contemporary issues or devices, because it can date a book, which in some ways limits its shelf life. That said, I do think the language of books should reflect their times. However, I’m not ready to start opening novels and reading text exchanges rather than dialogue, so I have limits on that too!

@Phil- definitely an option! And I just looked and there are available tickets for Villanova. So I’ll be able to figure something out.

@Meghan – it may interest you to know that I have a cross-stitched stocking, half done since about 1992, sitting in my office. I’m pondering picking it back up. It may happen. It may not. But the sweater you’ve been knitting for 5 years has nothing on that!

@Cb – I may check out winter. I mean, Autumn wasn’t horrible – just not really my cup of tea.

@ARC – back in the San Fran area, or otherwise I would be all over that!

Maybe basketball games at a smaller uni? I went to a small college in California with a great basketball team and the games were very fun.