It's been awhile since I've blogged.

I returned from Japan 5 days ago, and feel back to normal.

I just wrote and posted my monthly column, so I'm looking forward to staying warm and reading before bedtime.  I'm reading Sword and Blossom a book about an English military man who fell in love with a Japanese woman in the early 1900's, when he was posted there to learn the language.  It's a fascinating look at two people who were separated during most of their long relationship.

I interrupted this book to read The Science of Leonardo, by Fritjof Capra, which I bought on Wed night when Robert and I attended a book party to introduce the book.  I love it, so I wrote about it for this month's column!

I finished Mel Lavine's book, A Strange Breed of Folks while in Japan.  

I don't know what I would do without books---and yoga--and my family--and the Internet--and my house.  I am grateful for so many things.

Since I was in Japan on Thanksgiving, we're going to have another Thanksgiving tomorrow here at my house.  Gunther will make a rotisserie turkey; I already made the dressing, and put flowers and candles on the table with a fresh table cloth (the terra cotta-colored sari cloth that Zenobia brought back from India in October.)

Zenobia, Tyler, Robert, Roy Iwaki, and of course Gunther, Eliza, and Auggie and Anders will come.  I got some new books from the library yesterday to  read to the kids.

It's getting cold, and I'm turning heaters on in various rooms where I'm working for awhile.