Thank you! I ordered a sampler.

Arcadia is the best play I've ever seen or read, and very close to my heart. Thank you, Tom Stoppard, for this and other gifts.

I encourage you to do it! I didn't grow up doing Advent calendars and only started a few years ago with Bonne Maman. Last year I waited and got a fancy tea calendar during December sales, and it cheered up January nicely.

Libraries weed books from the shelves if not enough people check them out. So using your library also helps keep writers' work accessible to others!

Really simple but brings us delight every year: we use a local company's stuffing (Stearns) and usually buy it in 1lb bags. It's well known that is my favorite. One year my mom asked my aunt to pick up 4 bags. We didn't know they'd started offering 4lb bags. We ended up with 16lbs of stuffing.

Fantastic shower idea!

This Danny Shanahan cartoon is my long-time favoeite.

Amazing deal, wow!!!

And the fact that we had a bunch leftover is fine - more bookmarks for us, nothing that needs stacking or that I mind finding decades later.

yes, though at our wedding long ago we gave bookmarks as the favors. I figured most people can use bookmarks and you never have too many.

I'm following for similar reasons, though their big planning is now done (they got engaged over a year ago and wedding is in a few months).

This is so important!

When you write the whole piece around the idea of “MeToo” as an adequate description of what caused specific men to lose specific positions, and when you do this incredibly weird cutesy business to avoid *mentioning what happened*, you do a disservice to readers.

Whenever it airs, looking forward to you telling readers/listeners about it, and then to me enjoying it.

Thank you for the excellent earworm and the lovely persimmon pic. Enjoy 6 out of 8!