When I am at home for the holiday break, I see dirt that I manage to ignore the rest of the year. So that is when I wipe down the cookbook shelves. We have a lot of cookbooks. Too many.

Several are about how to bake bread. Peter used to bake awesome yeast breads before I was diagnosed with gluten-intolerance. He hasn't baked any since then.

I gave some thought to tossing those well-worn-but-not-lately-used bread-baking cookbooks, but decided to consult with Peter first.

"If I should pre-decease you, would you go back to baking bread?" I asked. He looked a little sheepish as he replied.

"Probably."