Tidying up
Nothing new on the medical front. I'm just taking it easy and waiting for the next step; that seems to be the best way to handle things anyway.
Last week we sold our old house in town and now are in the throes of clearing things out. We've found, not surprisingly, that things we've gotten along without for a year can very likely go straight to Goodwill. Amazing how much clutter builds up and how much we think is "vital" to us. Does Saint H really need all those t-shirts? Can I do without those dress shoes? (That would be "no" and "yes", respectively)
We didn't get everything cleared out of the old house when we moved because I was too sick to do much of anything. Last summer was pretty forgettable, in the long run, except for being on the farm in peace and quiet. I am so glad that we moved!
Here's a list of books that I read in the past month:
NONFICTIONMadeleine Albright: The mighty and the Almighty Amy Butler Greenfield: A perfect red (on cochineal) Cass R. Sunstein: Radicals in robes: why extreme right-wing courts are wrong for America Reza Aslan: No God but God: the origins, evolution and future of Islam Dorothy Sheridan: Wartime women: a Mass-Observation anthology
FICTIONAmanda Quick: Mischief; Surrender; Seduction; Ravished; Reckless; Dangerous (it was a long weekend of light reading - need I say more?) Priscilla Royal: Wine of violence; Tyrant of the mind; Sorrow without end (a medieval mystery series) Roberta Gellis: Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons
I think everyone should read No God but God; it does help make sense of what's happening in the world today. (Well, there's very little sense to be made of what's happening, but you know what I mean.) The Mass-Observation project in Great Britain encouraged women to record their thoughts and observations on everyday life leading up to, and during, World War II. It's a little like reading a blog ...
I'll mention the Harry Potter series now, but not again. Those live in the bathroom and I read them through regularly; have probably made it through the series to date a dozen or so times so far.
Last week we sold our old house in town and now are in the throes of clearing things out. We've found, not surprisingly, that things we've gotten along without for a year can very likely go straight to Goodwill. Amazing how much clutter builds up and how much we think is "vital" to us. Does Saint H really need all those t-shirts? Can I do without those dress shoes? (That would be "no" and "yes", respectively)
We didn't get everything cleared out of the old house when we moved because I was too sick to do much of anything. Last summer was pretty forgettable, in the long run, except for being on the farm in peace and quiet. I am so glad that we moved!
Here's a list of books that I read in the past month:
NONFICTION
FICTION
I think everyone should read No God but God; it does help make sense of what's happening in the world today. (Well, there's very little sense to be made of what's happening, but you know what I mean.) The Mass-Observation project in Great Britain encouraged women to record their thoughts and observations on everyday life leading up to, and during, World War II. It's a little like reading a blog ...
I'll mention the Harry Potter series now, but not again. Those live in the bathroom and I read them through regularly; have probably made it through the series to date a dozen or so times so far.
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