Snow Day

John Steinbeck, author of many things, but my all-time favorite is Travels With Charley: In Search of America and baby, if you haven't read it, absolutely put it on your list

Oh my gosh, we've at last had SNOW! I got not one but 2 invitations to take part in a snowball fight w/ the neighborhood kids, but, I assured them, I'm a pacifist/noncombatant.  And today's the anniversary of the day, in 1823, when poor old Dr. Samuel Mudd was born. And the anniversary of John Steinbeck's death day, in 1968.  Sigh...