Rose Levy Beranbaum's Perfect All-American Chocolate Butter Cake

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift" The Uses of Sorrow by Mary OliverI have a hard time saying goodbye. But I'm not sad that 2012 has reached its bittersweet end.It was a challenging year, on the personal front, for both the husband and myself: a bad year for friendships, a year of some very tough trial