uest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible" by A.J. Jacobs. I like that someone else commits to a daunting task, and then tells me about it, so I don't have to.In "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" a family commits to eating only local food. This involves learning to do things themselves, or do without. Their story is insightful, comic, and motivating. Did you know you can make cheese? In a kitchen. In your kitchen. The book is rife with fun facts and hilarious anecdotes, and I highly recommend it as winter-into-spring reading. Prepare yourself for garden-lust.
Today, I picked up "The Year of Living Biblically." I'm only a few dozen pages
in, but the story of an agnostic mentally, physically, and spiritually embracing a literal translation of the Bible, is both humorous, and moving. He hires a shatnez inspector to clear his closet of cotton/wool blends, he learns how to pray, he grows a truly epic beard, and he drives his wife nuts. I appreciate his respectful approach, and that he can still laugh at himself. Mostly, however, I appreciate that he wrote it down, so that I can share in the experience, while sitting in my armchair, wearing cotton/poly blend, drinking milk with my ham sandwich.
treat. I drew a bath, and poured some wine, played some George Winston, and settled in with a book by my new favorite author, 
with the scarf I strung on a hand-me-down loom three months ago. I found it last week shoved into a corner when I had to dig out the electric meter for the city utility-man. I was so excited to try knitting an argyle pattern. I made it though the solid color bottom band and hid it under my bed for a year. I shudder to think of it. I promised my guy a sweater vest to keep him warm this winter. It'll work great if he's ok with cold shoulders. I promised a friend fingerless mittens to get him through a cold fall. I need new scrubs for work and ambitiously bought a pattern and fabric, thinking I would practice my sewing skills whenever I need a break from the knitting. Oh boy.
