Carolina Comments: Demonstrating, Reading, Eating

POLITICAL PROTEST Hands Off! It has been gratifying whether personally or vicariously to experience the fabulous turnout in the many Hands Off protests across the country and around the world.  Family members and friends of ours participated in Greensboro, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Indiana, and D.C.   These demonstrations send a powerful visual message of anger and outrage over …

Summertime Doings: Reading & Action

This summer, reading has been a primary activity. This month I branched out with some targeted political action. BEACH READING The Ambassador’s Wife by Jennifer Steil Free spirited artist Miranda meets and marries Finn, an upstanding, conventional British career diplomat, and becomes an ambassador’s wife in a fictional Middle Eastern Muslim country.  Adjusting to the constraints of …