Another side benefit of making the endless drive from Rochester, NY to Princeton, NJ, made even longer these days by the beginning of road construction/ traffic tie-up season, is being able to go to the Princeton University Art Museum. It’s a wonderful jewel-box of a collection, with new exhibitions opening regularly in addition to a
Quite the name for a short story! A friend of mine gave me a compilation of short stories to read by Wilbur Daniel Steele, whose stories stem from the early part of the 20th century in America– at a time where there was little sympathy for Chinese immigrants. The story is fascinating and the prose
I finally got a chance to see the movie Paterson, but I had to travel 326 miles to a movie theater in Princeton, New Jersey (not too far from Paterson, New Jersey) just to get a chance to see it before it disappears into video release. Granted, I was going to Princeton for the
Last Friday night, after a very long week, my husband and I went to The Crest in Sacramento to see Can’t Be Stopped, of which we knew little about upon entering the theater. In fact, we were so clueless, we had no idea if it was a movie or a live show because the whole shabang
I am finally, officially and proudly in Nadia’s camp of having absolutely no idea how much I read last week. In fact, I was enjoying reading so much yesterday afternoon I forgot all about posting until I started getting lots of good notifications that folks were hanging around here. Whoops! I am really honestly shocked &
We are at the end of our ten week reading challenge, and I am nowhere near finishing. The books I didn’t get to are still piled up on my table. The poems I haven’t read are set aside for later. The essay collections I started are still half-finished, and all the New Yorker, Boston Review,
This was another book that took some time getting through. It’s equal parts laughter and tears. The author lost her father and her husband and had a miscarriage all within the time span of 6 weeks (I believe). It was a lot of loss within a very short period of time. While the death of
This just showed up in my inbox, perhaps a little late, but good advice for the next challenge? Here’s the text by Elle Kaplan, from Medium. “Reading is a huge key to success and wealth, but how can you actually benefit from this habit as a busy adult? I’ve said it many times: reading books
Well, the excuse is that I was in Buffalo last night, staying over in my husband’s apartment–he works there during the week and then comes back to Rochester on the weekends–and he’s a bit of a cheapskate, so he never got wifi for the apartment. He figured that he’d just get all his internet access
Sadly, I am falling behind. I do not think I will catch up but I am going to do my best for the last week of course. I want to comment once more on how this approach of a page goal versus a total number of books has led me down paths I otherwise would
Seasonal Reading 