Reading and Roaming
REFLECTIONS Cuba in 2019 Seven years ago this week, the Chief Penguin and I were part of a small group educational and cultural trip to Cuba. We were in Havana the bulk of the time with a trip one day to the Vinales Valley. In the city, we experienced lunch at a private restaurant, one of the …
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WINTER THOUGHTS Good morning. Like much of the country, North Carolina is experiencing a winter weather event. For some, it will be a really massive storm with inches and possibly feet of snow; for others, after a bit of snow, the real concern is freezing rain and ice. We’ve had just over an inch of snow and are …
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It’s winter and the weather outside is cold and gray and sleety. When not exercising in the gym or fulfilling our several committee assignments, the Chief Penguin and I find ourselves burrowing deep into reading or bingeing on a TV series. Hence, this week, you have here a book and a medical drama. FABULOUS NOVEL The Correspondent by …
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RECENT VIEWING A Logger’s Life in the West: Train Dreams (Netflix) Train Dreams is a quiet serious film set in the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century and based on a novella by Denis Johnson. Logging was at its peak, and trains were the fastest means of transportation across great distances. Robert Grainier is a logger, a dreamer, and …
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