A quiet corner; a couple of outfits I enjoyed wearing on cold days; a few scenes of the urban waterfront view that always coaxes a smile . . . a weird-but-worth-it book . . . and an excerpt from a 30-year-old travel journal I kept . . . A Sunday Seven for you, things that brought a smile in a week that challenged. Click through to read.
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The horse tethering rings I saw in Siena last November fascinated me, and I snapped photo after photo. I’m sharing them here to take you on a tour of that Tuscan city — also sharing a few pages from my travel sketch journal.
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I’ve never seen Siena’s dramatic annual horse race, Il Palio, but I’d read about it before we visited last fall. And I very quickly saw traces of the city’s horse culture throughout the winding narrow streets of its historic centre. Walk through it with me? click to read the full post.
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My reading year began splendidly, with a big, fat, delicious novel, bought by me and for me in the week before Christmas, just for that purpose. It was followed by a few good mysteries, a memoir comprised of essays, and a couple of novels thoughtfully illuminating some difficult history through the voices of some compelling female protagonists. And as I’ve been doing for a few years now, I’ve made a few notes about each book in my handwritten Reading Journal and transcribed those notes here to share with you. Click through to check out my January Reading and do consider joining in the book chat that follows.
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My current theory for feeling too busy is that I’m still adjusting to a less restricted social life as we enter a fourth year of living with “that virus.” A privileged kind of busy, I know, the post-retirement variety. But I wrote about it anyway. Perhaps you can relate; perhaps you’ll roll your eyes. Read on to find out . . .
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