Hello, winter

Today, I am grateful for electricity, and for a house that is once again lighted and warm.

Today, I am not grateful for social media.

As such, I have compiled a list of all the things I can do instead of staring at people being obnoxious to each other over the internet:

Bake more cookies. Write more words. Read more books. SLEEP. (There has not been enough of this going around the past forty-eight hours.) Ponder. Pray. Meditate. Whatever you call that time when you sort out all the complicat...