Reading and Roaming
ENJOYING CITY LIFE In our new location, we usually walk downtown once or twice a week. The other day it was to the French bakery and yesterday to the weekly farmers’ market. The breads and cookies from La Farm Bakery are tempting and tasty, and we’re discovering which market vendors have items we’d like to sample. This week it was …
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I’m still enthusing about spring here and reveling in the beauty of droopy, fragrant Chinese wisteria (header photo), early azaleas, and the lovely slim branches of the redbud trees. A SINGULAR WOMAN Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray If you spend any appreciable time in mid-coast Maine, you are likely to become aware of Frances Perkins, …
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THE BIG MOVE After a decade of retirement living on the west coast of Florida, the Chief Penguin and I moved to eastern North Carolina! We spent two days on the road with a night in Brunswick, Georgia, before arriving in our new state. Move-in day was just a week ago, but we’ve made great progress toward …
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BOOK OF THE WEEK All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley In a time of family illness and subsequent loss, Patrick Bringley found a job and solace in a place he first visited as a child with his mother. Mired in grief over his older brother’s death and only …
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