Maria and I are going to New York a few days after New Year’s to spend a day or so with my daughter Emma and my granddaughter Robin, who went on the swings in a park on Brooklyn Sunday despite the frigid cold. She loves her swings.

Since I last saw  her, Robin has some new teeth, is walking, talking up a storm and reading. I’ll be interested to see this evolving person, I see her smile has not diminished one bit