Aunt Elsie’s Library and Saturday Afternoon Gingersnaps

There’s a ferocious wind blowing outside and it chills me to the core.  What’s the best cure for this ailment?  A hot cuppa and a good book!

I’m so grateful for a childhood with a large space to run, and loving elderly aunts in every direction.  Aunt Elsie invited me to enjoy her enormous library, and that’s where I passed many contented Saturday afternoons. She had a remarkable way of caring about my life at the same time that she shared her own.  If only her stories would have been captured in a book, I would build my own library around her long life and sweet spirit.

So, I console myself with her gingersnap recipe…