  Tonight was a good night. Driving home, I felt so alive and so content and so very, very tiny. Why is life just a small flicker? -We had our book meeting tonight. We met at Sardine's. Ira didn't show-that's a long story, which I'll expound on later. We ate calamari and garlic bread. We talked about Persuasion , The Thief Lord , and The Secret Garden . Debby chose this month's book. We're going to read Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance . I don't like that it's an Oprah book, but I must read it. We left Sardine's at seven and Debby and I went to Starbucks to chat for two hours. -I'm currently reading The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo. It's, so far, an absolutely adorable book. I began reading it last night and I had to wake up Sandy to tell her how much I loved it. 
