In no particular order.

I've been sitting here looking at recipes in the Baking With Splenda book I bought a while back. I'm trying to find a recipe I don't want to try, but so far I haven't. I thinks it's time to fire up the oven.

Ruth and I went to a volunteer Apprication lunch today... very nice. It was given at the Health Care Center where we've gone for the last six years, once a month. For four of those years, I've provided the music for a church service and the other two, I did a concert of gospel music once a month, with some occasional scriptural readings and commentary because the pastor of the church had moved away and the church was pastorized. (I know, that's not a real word.)

At the lunch, someone came up and said, "I saw the wonderful review of your book in the paper!" That was news to me. I asked which paper it was in and she said, "Oh, I don't know, the Connecticut Post or the New Haven Register." When did you see it? I asked. "Oh, I don't know, a couple of days ago, I guess."

After the lunch, Ruth and I drove down to the main office of the Connecticut Post. (Here's the folk music connection.) Steve Winters, Editor of the Post offered to have the paper review my book when I ran into him at a Paton Family concert. When we went up to the main desk and told them we were looking for a book review that Steve Winters had set up we were informed that he retired today. "Oh,I don't know,maybe it was yesterday or a couple of weeks ago." She really didn't say that, although I was prepared for it. After carefully looking through paper after paper, we found it in the Sunday paper on the front page of the Arts & Travel section. This is Thursday, so it wasn't a couple of days ago. At least the woman was right. She really didn't know. But it was good to see it before it disappeared into the ether.

Jerry