April Glimmers

Beauty/Clothing

• Book-themed claw clips from Lake City Books

Entertainment

• ER

• The Pitt (x2!)

Family/Friends

• Toddlers learning how to put on their own coats

• Parents visiting from Connecticut

• Hosting Passover Seder for 9 kids and 11 adults

• Having good news

• Grown kids calling home more often

• Little sister is engaged; planning an Indian wedding

Madison

• Day date to Sardine, A Room of One’s Own, coffee, and reading

• Dane County Farmers’ Market back on the Square

  • Volunteering!

• Getting a summer CSA

• Pottery classes through MSCR

• Midwest Clay Project

• Dongzhu Pottery Studio

Travel

• Boston for the Boston Marathon

• Mexico City

• New York City (x2!)

• Rick Steves Tour of Ireland

• Dinner at Alinea in Chicago

• Writing retreat including prepared writing prompts

• Alaskan cruise

• Lisbon and Barcelona

• Croatia this summer

• Visiting Key West in May

• Puerto Rico

Other

• Seeing sunshine

• Biking around Madison

• Walking everywhere downtown

• Creating a reading nook in a new condo

• Work calming down

• Good medical news

• Adopting a cat, Ozai

• Finding the Non Committal Book Club

• Creating and planting plants in a planter box

• Getting more freelance work

• Attending more yoga classes

• Poured a new driveway

• Fred, the foster dog, got adopted

• Dewey, the three-legged dog

• Cherry goat cheese at Trader Joe’s