My husband and I watched your special last night and unexpectedly said good-bye to our cat this morning. We laughed because you clearly have also tried to medicate a cat!

After the fourth day of Hannukah, the candle lighting gets later, and that is when we are supposed to start celebrating harder, because light is winning. It is especially meaningful to reflect on a holiday about using limited resources when you are far outnumbered and overpowered in 5786.

As a bonus, one of my fondest 2012 memories was seeing Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 in theaters with a dear late friend, getting rowdy, and going out continuing to drink during Santacon, which by then was gross and huge but not as bad it it would become.

It really stuck with me, particularly as a spouse who has been transformed by chronic illness (and who has also had a spouse with that experience)

I had the particular indignity of having to wait at a bus stop right next to a gas station shrieking ads at me