Reading to escape. . . to India.
For years my husband and I traveled to India in the winter. More recently, we have gone in the summer[…]
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For years my husband and I traveled to India in the winter. More recently, we have gone in the summer[…]
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Read moreThinking about my fellow MissDemeanors as this week draws to a close. Lots of good work going on among them,[…]
Read moreOver the past months I’ve managed to meet obligations noted on my calendar– although they don’t exist in the scope[…]
Read moreI first traveled to India nearly twenty years ago. Like a traveler arriving in the United States for the first time, one is conscious of what there isn’t time to see. Imagine claiming to have ‘seen’ America with a stop in New York, a visit to Boston, maybe Miami and San Francisco. What about the deep South, or the Badlands, the New England coast, the west coast. The list goes on. That’s how I feel about India.
Read moreRecently one of my fellow MissDemeanors mentioned that her family doesn’t like the word chortle. I’ll admit that this made me chortle. After all, it’s a word about laughter. Or is it? Perhaps there’s been a bad moment of exultant singing / chanting that simply should not be repeated.
Read moreThis weekend, happenstance led me to my dog eared copy of Chinua Achebe’s amazing book Things Fall Apart. It was an old friend, the story of Okonkwo’s exile from his tribe, and the shattering changes that come to him and his family with the arrival of European Imperialism.
February is Black History month and after revisiting Okonkwo’s story I wanted more ‘local’ voices.
Read moreProust immortalized the madeleine cookie in his seven volume In Search of Lost Time (A la recherché de temps perdu). Eating this simple French dessert he relived the memories of his childhood through his senses: tasting, smelling, touching and seeing this treat in both the past and the present.
Read moreTis the season and I’m looking for favorite holiday books to give and receive. Certainly the classics come to mind, including Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, a whole host of children’s books, such as Rudolph and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. And I must add Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, a fantastic locked room mystery.
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