We’re socked in by a snow storm here; the library is closed today, and I’m home.  Jim took a personal day rather than drive the fishtail-happy, seventeen-year-old Honda in these slippery conditions.  So we’ve both been reading by the wood stove.  Jim’s working on a book Jean gave him for Christmas, Frank Conroy’s Time and Tide, and I’ve just finished reading Carol Gorman’s book Games.  I’m working through my thoughts on Games, trying to figure out how it ranks on the literary scale.  It’s one of those books that will need to sit at the back of my head for a few hours, or a day, before I can coherently and concisely say what I need to say about it.

In other news, since the library is closed today, the Create a Valentine workshop has been cancelled.  I spent the morning calling all the parents of the kids who had signed up to let them know that the program wouldn’t run.  One disappointed mom asked me whether it would be rescheduled.  “Hmmm,” I said, “Since today is Valentine’s Day, and it’s a Valentine card making workshop, I’m not sure that it would have any real relevancy after today.”  Not to mention, though I didn’t tell the mom this, there’s no room in the library calendar to reschedule this until February 28th, by which time a Valentine project would seem REALLY silly.

On the bright side, I’m all set for next year’s Create a Valentine program!