So indulged

Hello, friends. I'm blogging this week from my parents' house, where my partner, children, and I are playing, napping, idling, walking, exploring, and generally being coddled by the people who gave me life. It is grand, I tell you. Absolutely divine.

Do you know what the most beautiful sentence in the English language is, when uttered by busy and normally responsible adults? It's, "Hi, Mom. What's for dinner?" Okay, that's 2 sentences. But that's where I'm at, right now. I feel very lucky and extremely loved and totally indulged.

I'm reading this:

and this:

And I'll reflect on these in a future edition of A Reader Reports. But at the moment, it's raining outside, I've just had very hot shower, and I'm eating a steaming bowl of black rice pudding with coconut milk in an almost-silent house. Life may get better than this, but right now I just want these few minutes to last as long as possible.

How are you faring, this November? What's new with you?