de rigueur...

Clouds sitting low across the mountains. Looks as if it might snow, though haven’t heard anything suggesting it’ll happen. Hope if it decides to come down it waits a week and treats us to a white Christmas.

US diplomatic relations have restored with Cuba…North Korea has launched a cyber attack against Sony Pictures…and LL Bean duck boots have become a fashion statement on college campuses. I learned all of this since waking up.

Been thinking about the Robert Hellenga’s, “A Christmas Letter.” A terrific story that first appeared in Ploughshares. I’ve decided I need to re-read it on Christmas.  Also, I want to crack Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, which has been sitting on the nightstand for months.