Frank traveled to the midwest during a blizzard today.

We had an unusually warm day to start off the new year here in Amherst. Returning home after singing Auld Lang Syne with Arthur Kinney and company, I began making a feijoada today, which my Brazilian friend Iara Velasques taught me to make when we were at graduate school together years ago. Later Arnold Friedmann called to wish me a Happy New Year.