Blooming flowers in winter almost classifies as a miracle!

Sadly, no, but they *do* have a restaurant where you can while away the hours devouring books

Many thanks! it's been good so far, though someone decided to get me sick (just a bad cold) so there's that. 2026 can only get better from here*!

Happy New Year to You, too!

*right?

Photo credit: Laura Peterson

Happy day! Did you talk to the folks who work there? I bet they were just as excited as you were!

Though most of us are familiar with the "double-u", that is to say, "W", the "triple-V" was removed from the latinate alphabet by Pontius Pilates because it was too cute.

I could never claim to be a journalist, but the writing I've done for newspapers has been hugely influential on me. Not only for style, etc., but because of the people I met working in those spaces. Heroes.