My body is unhappy with me today for having eaten all that sweet stuff at book group last night. Since the no-dessert debacle several meetings ago, we've overcompensated by having way too many desserts. While all are fantastic and worthy of a nibble (or two or three or twelve), it's too much for me anymore. I'm finding as I get older that sugar and chocolate and ooey-gooeys are not nearly the friends to me that they once were.

I'm really going to miss that group of women, what I jokingly call the Haole White Women's Book Group. It struck me when I first joined that it was the first time since moving here that I had been in such a largely homogenous group. It's not that way by design; it's just how it works out. I was trying to remember last night just how many of us have wandered in and out over the years: Jackie, Tara, Erin, Diana, Debbie, Melanie, Yonat, Sirianna, Renée, Buffy, Amy L., Denise, Margaret, Kathryn, Cecily, Dorothy, Alison, Hope, Amy S., and now Barbara and Rachel. And probably a few I've forgotten. How lucky I have been to be a part of that.
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