Reading and Roaming
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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IN HONOR OF VALENTINE’S DAY Reflections on Grandma Walter I realized early this morning that today, February 15th, was my grandmother’s birthday. Meta Marie Henne was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1897. If she were a centennial woman, today would be her 129th birthday; she died at 80 in 1977. In 1922, a few years after graduating from …
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