“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”– Ursula K. LeGuin Reading 2020. July ended up being a good month for some reading. Rainy days...days lounging near the beach...hot, sweltering days...all great days to dive deeply [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 61. It's been a while! I hope that you all are doing well. Life just keeps chugging along. We are in the middle of a heatwave here in Roanoke, Virginia. It makes me wonder how I spent so much of my life as a Floridian. Over the 4th of July, the hubby [...]
“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”-Jean Rhys Reading 2020. I was surprised to find some time to read in June, but I did! If you missed my first "What I've Been Reading" post, you can find the Jan/Feb reads in [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 60. We can all change the world. It doesn't have to be done in leaps and bounds. Small steps taken regularly lead to great change. As Anne Frank says, we don't need to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. So go out there (socially distanced, of course) and [...]
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”– Paul Sweeney Reading in 2020. I mentioned in my last post, Choosing Not To Stay Silent, that later in the week I'd be sharing my reads from May. So here I [...]
Choices. We all have them. Don't we? Some big. Some small. And all those in-between. I could have come here today and shared my monthly reads from May. That was my planned topic of conversation for the first week of June. And yet, it feels wrong to not acknowledge the atrocity of a stolen life. [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 59. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Would you agree? I have heard it said time and time again that one of the commonalities found in all humans is that they have a desire to be seen and heard. A validation that they exist. That they matter. They want [...]
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."-Audrey Hepburn Laughter. Ok. Ok. I can't promise that a laugh a day will keep the doctor away. However, according to the Mayo [...]
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."-John Green Reading in 2020. As promised, I'm sharing what I've been reading during the month of April. Following [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 58. Last week I shared 22 Quotes on Hope to help you through stressful times. I thought that I'd continue with that theme for this week's Tuesday Truth with a little bit of wisdom courtesy of Star Wars. This is a worldwide journey through the night. We are all experiencing an existence [...]
