All the Frills: I'm Finished With 2020

I am so eager for 2020 to end that I set up my Christmas decorations about three weeks early this year. And, as usual, it is putting me in a slightly better mood. With two new boisterous kittens at home, I opted this year for my damage proof free (small, slight, and covered with plastic ornaments – purchased for the first Christmas that Eleanor was crawling, when I worried she’d topple the tree). I wish I could put my larger, taller tree out but here we are. I hope you’re all finding ways to enjoy the season!

Weekend Reading:

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg had some truly beautiful collars. 
  
  
  
• Yet further proof that Scotland is simply the greatest place in the world. 
  
  
  
• I mostly agree with this ranking of premiere episodes of the various Real Housewives franchises. Mostly.
  
  
  
• This is a horrific read on sickening injustices committed against “comfort women” (sex slaves). 
  
  
  
• This piece about reckoning with a post-Trump presidency and the limits of reconciliatory rhetoric was a good read.