Last night I attended an author event at the Clinton Book Shop, which is located near my home in New Jersey, where Elizabeth Noble was reading from and talking about her new book, Things I Want My Daughters to Know. Many of you know Elizabeth from her previous books The Reading Group, The Friendship Test and Alphabet Weekends. One of my favorite moments of the evening came when a woman in the audience mentioned that she and her husband were going to be empty nesters in the near future, and they were embarking on their own version of the adventures based on the alphabet adventures in Alphabet Weekends.

Moving the clocks ahead for Daylight Savings Time has given me personal jetlag. I am not kidding. Tuesday morning my son yelled "goodbye" as he walked out the door at 7:15 and I responded with a hearty "bye," but then I wondered how that was part of my dream. I then realized he was up and at 'em and I was still clocking pillow time. At night I am wide awake and thus getting an extra hour of reading done. I somehow need to shift this pattern, but since I am a natural night owl I see myself moving the hour in five-minute increments.