Reading and Roaming
ART IN BLOOM This is the second year we have gone to Art in Bloom at the art museum in Raleigh. I enjoyed this year’s paired arrangements (flowers with paintings or sculpture) as much or more than last year’s. A few I found too drab or just not interesting, but overall, there was a plethora of showy …
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ISLAND INTERLUDE Last week, we took the kind of vacation we hadn’t had in years. We returned to beautiful St. Lucia after 20 years away. Same lovely lush island, but a different resort this time. The air was warm, the breezes soft, the sun mostly out, and the occasional rain showers brief and almost magical. We spent the …
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RECENT READING: DAILY LIFE LIVED WELL The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly The term, “Irish goodbye,” means leaving a party or a gathering quietly without saying goodbye to anyone. The Irish Goodbye is a collection of short to extremely brief writings by the former poet laureate of Mississippi. It ranges from her quick thoughts on married …
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MOVIE TIME: A PSYCHIATRIST IN CRISIS A Private Life (Cary Theater) Having discovered the delights of our local movie theater, the Chief Penguin and I walked downtown again. This time to see Jodie Foster in A Private Life. A French film in French with subtitles and a few snatches of English, it’s a little bit of everything: murder mystery, love …
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