Cookies

When the weather begins to take over the outdoors, I tell myself this is why we have Christmas. I bake cookies. This year there will be the usual: chocolate biscotti, tiny spheres of mocha nut butter, layered bars of caramel pecans and chocolate on top of a crust, cut out cranberry shortbread, and something new with the latest sensation, cocoa nibs. I will post my photo card. And I will sing the old songs. Singers love the old songs, so if we can hear them live, they come alive again in spite of the endless recordings that have deadened our ears.