Reading and Roaming
VISITING NORTH CAROLINA How I spent my summer vacation. Wrong season, how I spent Thanksgiving week. The Chief Penguin and I were in North Carolina to visit my sisters and their families and spent time in both Greensboro and Chapel Hill with brisk walks to Greensboro’s Bog and Centennial Gardens, excursions to Winston-Salem, to the marvelous McIntyre’s …
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RECENT READING Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens From the online comments I’ve read over the past six months, people either loved or hated this novel. I put off reading it until now, mostly because my local book group was going to discuss it and I wanted it to be fresh in my mind. I’m in the …
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PROVISIONING—Cheese and More I grew up eating good cheese, not expensive cheese, but good New York State sharp cheddar. In our household, there was no such thing as American cheese, a misnomer if there ever was one. In that era in upstate New York, Black Diamond cheddar from Canada was the height of sophistication and an occasional …
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ENDLESS SUMMER This is so far a strange November. We’ve changed the clocks and it gets dark early, but the sun is still hot during the day and the mercury scrapes 90. Overnight it doesn’t get really cool (still low 70’s) and the days are sticky humid. Usually by now, the local paper has had at least one …
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