Six Titles Near the End of the Year. . . .

Before I left for Paris earlier this month, I had caught up my Reading Journal and meant to share photos of those pages with you. Didn’t happen, so now I’m going to post two or…

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Armchair Travel: Reading About Sicily . . .

The second page in my new Watercolour Sketchbook — the first boasts my hand-drawn (and hence, more suggestive than accurate 😉 of Sicily.  . . We’re planning a family meet-up week there next spring, and…

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Art for Matrons? You’ll Be Surprised! (Women are Malleable and Art is Where We Find It)

 In my ongoing attention (see previous post) to the “random abundance” which Oregon writer Kim Stafford (in his book The Muses Among Us) is the matrix out of which “Coherence is born,” I pulled Paul…

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Mystery, Travel, Romance, Engaging Literary Fiction, and a KidLit title — A Mixed Bag for you

 Back again, to share a few more messy pages from my year’s Reading Journal — I see now that for next year’s journal (this one was the first handwritten record after years of tracking my…

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Scary Rides on Monday. . . Page from my Travel Sketchbook

 “Regular life” has resumed, and I’m trying to figure how to build on some of the insights travel provided about using my time well — how to balance Shoulds and Musts so that I stay…

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