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MORE SENSE OF PLACE, mostly in books
I know I promised to suggest more book titles with a sense of coastal Maine, and I will, but who could pass up a teaser headline like this one: Hip-Hop … Continue reading
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SENSE OF PLACE, Part 2 B00KS PLUS
Last blog post, I got all quibbley about Paul Theroux’s NYT list of books for a traveler to read before visiting Boston, even though I have mostly been a pass-through Boston traveler on my way to Maine. So to answer … Continue reading
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MORE NEWS OF MY WORLD: PLACES, BOOKS, CIVIC DUTY, AND CHARLIE
Question of the day: Books may furnish a room, but can they capture a sense of a place? I am 4 years new to Seattle and still don’t know what makes it what it is, except for Charlie and the … Continue reading
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NEWS FROM MY WORLD, amended
UPDATE AND REWRITE… This post is later than late because WordPress changed itself, so I sent it out on email to my 4 faithful readers, but Charlie fixed this latest catastrophe, as he … Continue reading
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GOOD NEW YEAR NEWS and ditch grasses
[I like to think these news items are a bit like Louis Jenkins’ “small stories”, without his poetic chops.] Good News, finally! Charlie and I both had COVID and were quarantined together for ten days in my studio apartment of about 400 square … Continue reading
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RESURRECTION
RESURRECTION OF MY LAST BLOG POST For reasons unknown, my last blog post vanished. I mean poof! It was gone. “Error 403” or “Error 404”’was all I got. No trash, no delete, no “sysop [Charlie] forgot,” nothing. I figured, like … Continue reading
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CIVIC DUTIES
VERY BAD NEWS The ding-dongs are at it again, banning books they don’t like and may never have read. Stephen King brings it home with a great review of Celeste Ng’s new dystopian novel, “ Our Missing Hearts,” in which, … Continue reading
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AT THE ZOO from A to Z
Big excitement here. We went to the zoo. “FIELD TRIP! FIELD TRIP!“ Charlie chanted, inappropriately. It was my first time on the city bus, albeit with a minder, and my first time wearing my safari-ish hat. Cristy, who is our fitness … Continue reading
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A LITTLE EXCITEMENT
A little excitement here. Charlie tells the tale, [and I edit.] …………………………… We were just walking down the street and I recognized the reporter who fortunately was from a station we watch. He asked if we’d like to be … Continue reading
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MIND EXERCISES AMONG THE FLOWERS
Our monthly fitness charge was to frolic among a chart of flowers by tallying our week’s exercise, self-assessing the results and assigning our tokens to “appropriate” flowers. To the Physical Exercises suggested, e.g. walking, climbing stairs, I suggested including Mind … Continue reading
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