Hello hello,
Happy Thanksgiving season! This is the most excited I’ve been in recent years for this holiday. I’m mostly looking forward to a break from work and attempting to slow down for a week. Of course, the boys are home from school all week, so I’m not sure how slow things will be. The kids have been watching all the Black Friday commercials which led to this recent exchange:
Ashton: Mommy, why do they call it Black Friday?
Remy: Because it’s shopping for Black people, and we’re Black so we get the deals.
[To be fair, there was a Black family in the commercial during this exchange so I think Remy used deductive reasoning to piece together the answer! lol]
In other news, I have a new author obsession so can we please talk about Abraham Verghese?! Not only is he a world renown infectious disease doctor, but he’s also a PULTIZER PRIZE winning novelist! His most recent book, Covenant of Water will completely screw you up. I’m now down a total AV rabbit hole – reading all his books from the 1990’s when he was at the forefront of the AIDS epidemic in rural Tennessee… He has a great interview with Steve Levitt here:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abraham-verghese-thinks-medicine-can-do-better/
It’s a excellent reminder that reading fiction isn’t just a frivolous pastime. We can actually learn a lot from fictitious characters and settings and plotlines. Authors can really push the boundaries under the veil of fiction, and that distance between the author and the story creates a beautiful freedom. Happy reading 🙂
Talk soon,
Jessica