My May reading: Mystery, Literary Fiction (American women in 1960s Vietnam; Vietnamese refugees in late 70s; a marriage foundering during an ex-pat year in Brazil; dystopia in Dublin); Ruth Reichl memoir. It’s all here — maybe you’ll find something you’ll want to read as well. . .
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A Three-Part Post: Some Recommendations of TV series and films; a recent mending project; and some thoughts on being 80 from an artist’s journal. Click through to read more.
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I’ve been doing some mending . . . and thinking about Old Things (including myself, eventually) and Creativity and Survival . . . also some wise words from a few younger peeps. . . Click through to read more and perhaps join the conversation
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2023 was another rich year of reading, and putting my Annual Book List together was a good way to remind me of so many great titles. This list offers those titles with briefest of descriptions (genre, setting, subject, etc) and a link back to the monthly post in which the fuller entry originally appeared. Perhaps you’ll find your next book here? Click through to peruse. . .
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Being a grandmother, sometimes I’m lucky to become a child again — as when my grandson and I work together on a project that recalls something my Mother made for my siblings and I 60-some years ago. Technologies and years telescope into a happy afternoon of creativity and reading. . . Click through to read more. . .
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