What I Wore: Summer Whites as Fall Knocks on the Door

Super busy with a variety of delightful activities ’round here: grandkids; friends visiting from out of town; long bike rides; unpacking boxes and trying to figure out where to put things; trying to find things…

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Ferrante ReadAlong Continues: Childhood, My Brilliant Friend

I’d love to keep the excuse-making to a minimum, but I will tell you that Pater and I enjoyed a long bike ride on Friday; I spent a glorious day with a friend visiting from…

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Read-Along Check In

I’ve finished reading the “Childhood” section of  Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend for the second time, and I’ve begun my post on it, likely to be up by Sunday, but I want to pause and ask what…

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Over-50 (and also Over-60!) Runner’s Selfie . . .

You are so right! That Is a Selfie-in-a-Bathroom. And in a Public Bathroom. No, worse, it’s in a very spartan Public Bathroom in a park, sporting a metal (so less vandalisable than glass) mirror. Why, why,…

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Family Life in a Smaller Space — Ça Marche. . .

 Surprising how much fun you can have at Nana and Granddad’s new digs with a few empty packing boxes.  Seven-year old G’daughter constructed fifteen or twenty feet of tunnel with them on the weekend —…

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