I have lost my glasses — again! I know they are in the “last place I’d look.” I just haven’t found that place...yet! In the meantime, I will go to the optician and get a new pair, maybe with a new prescription. I will also be looking for a new strategy for keeping track of my glasses (my wife has suggested a sequined eye chain).

I have wonderful memories of the homes I have lived in, but I never knew that so many interesting connections could be made to one’s home.  Until I read Bill Bryson’s book, At Home. Bill Bryson demonstrates both his humor and his curiosity about life and history as he takes the reader through the Victorian house of a former Anglican rector in Norwalk, England that became his home.

Scientists at CERN – the European Center for Nuclear Research – using the Large Hadron Collider on the border of Switzerland and France conducted tests last December that they hope will lead them to the discovery of the “God-particle”.  The “God-particle” is more affectionately known as the Higgs boson.  The existence of the particle has been predicted by physicists and would help explain why matter has mass (the kind of question that can keep people awake at night!).

Yes, ‘Fa’ with the eightfold ‘la’ — A nonsensical way to end the verses of  “Deck the Halls”.  We had a chance to sing this and other carols as our Advent, always-ready-for-prime-time, carolers donned our caps and antlers and went off to sing Christmas carols for our members (and friends).