I’m nearly done with this 12 point star blanket! It’s only 26" across but squishy and pretty. I also started gingerbread cookie dough and a baby cocoon because why not.

I met Patti Smith last year after a talk she gave. I told her how much I loved her memoirs she has written and she talked about how she had been writing since she was a little girl. I brought up my daughter, who is seven, and how much she loves writing funny poems. She reached over on the table and tore a piece of…