After the holidays...

Being grateful, cooking, reading, watching, listening...

Happy holidays to all as we finish off this strangest of years in many, many generations. Hard times remind us of all that we have to be grateful for. Our celebrations were splendid, and small, in our four-person pod, but the food and drink were no less grand.

We went all traditional with standing rib roast (thanks to chef Champe Speidel for procuring su…