Hi, all. Welcome back – I hope you are doing well, or as well as you can. That was a long stretch! I did think at a few points that it might have been a good idea to go away to a Pesach program. Yom Tov with my family was fine, I can’t complain, but it also had a “noisy and empty” quality for me, as I shared with my cousin. I don’t know if you relate?
(I like to travel when it’s not Yom Tov so I can go places but maybe there is a time and place for going someplace new for Yom Tov as well. My friend went to a program in South Africa, how amazing!)
I worked two days of chol hamoed and took two days off. On one of my days off, we had a family get-together, and on the other, I went on a short walking tour on the Lower East Side with the Museum at Eldridge Street. And on one of my work days, I went to the Museum at FIT. So I had these little chol hamoed trips sprinkled in.
Over Yom Tov, I read The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis, Together Tea by Marjan Kamali, and Yours from the Tower by Sally Nicholls and over chol hamoed (on my Kindle), I read Nature Tonic by Jocelyn de Kwant and started Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cuff. I’m really enjoying the highlighting feature on my Kindle and always send myself the highlighted passages at the end (I only use my Kindle with library books, via Libby). I also dipped into magazines on my coffee table and will have a follow-up post about that.
The best thing I ate over the week was pancakes! This pancake mix is SO GOOD, if pricey.
And now it’s back to work on a Monday and here we are. Thank you for being here.
