Hello. I just talked to my brothers, Craig and Larry, who were on their way home from fishing. And, Craig told me to check out the family blog. So here I am. Rick and I returned from our Maine/Boston/NYC trip on Friday night. It was a wonderful vacation, but now I'm digging myself out from under accumulated paperwork and laundry today. Tomorrow I hope to dig up my garden. I have endless projects to complete from necessary mundane chores, such as mowing the lawn (and, yes, we can still mow it because we're having beautiful weather this week!) to more fun things, such as planning our trip to Italy in April (Sam and I are going over a week or so before Rick, and then Rick is meeting us for the next two weeks, and then we're coming home via Boston and Lisa's graduation from Tuft's). Melanie, I grew small Japanese eggplant in my garden this year, and I collected a few recipes. Let me know if you're still interested. Tyler is staying with us, and in spite of being no fan of tomatoes, he loved the eggplant with tomato sauce that I fed him. Well, I need to get back to clearing off my desk. I'm looking forward to hearing Melanie's book recommendation. I just finished reading a book about Lincoln's cabinet, A Team of Rivals, which is a wonderful book but not book club material. It's more like a textbook. Another book that I recommend is Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks. It'll be interesting to find a book that appeals to all of us. I think Getting Mother's Body is a good book for a women's book club but I'm not sure about our family book club. Love to all. --Jennifer