Daily Archives: December 3, 2012

Happy nameday to me!

…and all other Lydias, at least the ones in Sweden and Norway. (In Latvia my nameday is January 16th.) Evidently we don’t actually celebrate such things here, though the word puzzle in today’s newspaper featured my name, and I’ve gotten a couple of nice email notes. My favorite finding on the subject: in Sweden there […]

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Winter weekend

It is now officially winter! The snow seems to make the train schedules a little erratic, though I’ve been lucky so far. Happily, the roads and paths are well cleared. On Saturday I went to Stockholm to play with Anders again (yaay!) — all layered up in case the promised 15–20°F temperatures coincided with stranding […]

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