... like I love sticky buns? If I had to choose between a honey-glazed donut, an iced cherry Danish, and a piece of rich chocolate cake, I'd ditch all three and go for the sticky bun every time. There's something about brewing a fresh cup of coffee and sitting down with a warm roll of dough coiled around brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins, and topped with more brown sugar and - ta-da - pecans, that makes the day start right. I don't do it often, but that makes it all the more special.
Weekend before last, I was at a library event and had the pleasure of meeting two dynamic women. Bear with me, here. I'm still talking sticky buns.
Huh? Magic Carpet? Well, isn't this a magical, mystical trip we take each time we go online? Think about it. With a few clicks, we're anywhere in the world. Maybe you don't see it that way. Maybe, if you've been surfing the web since you were a wee tot, you see the online world as your backyard. I don't. I surf every day of the week, yet I still see the World Wide Web as something of a miracle.
And the things it allows me to do?
If you are, then you must be suffering as I am with the darkness of autumn. Oh yes, the sun has been bright this fall, the foliage gorgeous, and the air warmer than the norm. But all that happens after eight in the morning. I'm here in my office at six, with windows to my left and right showing ... nothing at all. It's like it's the middle of the night.
So what do I do?
What do you do for a cold? What makes it shorter? Is there anything that will prevent it?
I'm asking for a reason. When my kids were little, I had colds constantly. Then they passed the constant-cold phase, I started taking Vitamin C, and I had no more than one cold a year or two. Now the colds are back. If this is the price of being a Grammi to very young grandkids, I'll gladly pay it. But how to deal?
Here's the immediate problem ...
