Month: April 2008

Soxing Day

My reader may not be aware of an important holiday called Soxing Day, which my dear AG and I made up several years back. On the solstices and equinoxes, we give each other … well, let me just show you what I got two weeks ago. More to come at the summer solstice. In the meantime, take a look at just a small sampling of the bounty from Soxing Days of yore. Ginna’s Life Tip […]

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Reading Matter

Did you know that the BBC does a big April Fools’ Day thing every year, planting spoof stories among the real ones? I didn’t. So a couple days ago, when I read the news headline about Nepal’s ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol during the upcoming elections, I wrote to Cheryl to express my sympathies. She e-mailed back, “It was an April fool joke.” Minutes later she wrote again: “Well, it WAS an […]

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