Then we came home to watch the Kennedy Center Honors, which was fantastic this year, partly because I love everyone who was being honored and partly because it was so much more dynamic with the performers moving around the building, without the producers trying to show off politicians and famous people in the audience. Favorite moments: Joan Baez covered by Rhiannon Giddens and Mary Chapin Carpenter, Debbie Allen clapping along to "Fame" and performances by her students, Garth Brooks crying through Kelly Clarkson singing "The Dance" and James Taylor singing "The River" (a Voyager vidding song for me), and every second of the Dick Van Dyke tribute starting with Julie Andrews.