Beguine the Beguine is on the record player, and I’m swinging around the music room, elated with the energy that forced me to dance, turn off the mind entirely. Total bliss. Dance has been with me since as far back as I can remember, the answer to a mood change, without drugs or ...
Sophie Kerr has the misfortune to be left with the chore of explaining those fingerprints, which she does in ten pages of near shaggy-dog tale telling by Glenda that serve more to achieve her word count goal than to facilitate a neat happy ending to the book. In sum, The Woman Accused ...
Was saddened by our neighbor Adele’s passing, and went to her funeral on leap day. Read 5/52 books, my favorites being An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, bringing my total to 9/52. Watched the intense German ...
he received a message that his mother was 11 .When he went back home to 12 his mother's funeral(葬礼), he learned that she was 13 not dead, but had gone to Mozambique with a boyfriend.For nine years, the young boy 14 from one village to another, living with 15 who often treated(...
He had gone to a great many funerals, offering comfort to others in sorrow, but now the iron had entered his own soul, and a brother minister had come to officiate and preach the funeral sermon; and after this minister had finished speaking, the father got up, and standing at the head...
Jane Byrne, too, was Irish and Catholic. All Chicago mayors since 1933 were Irish. Jane, 46, had just returned from a trip to Ireland. She went there after her September 5, 1979, appearance in London at the funeral ofLord Louis Mountbatten, assassinated August 27 by Irish radicals of the...
In lieu of flowers, to honor my memory, I request that you give yourself some grace for putting off that thing you’ve been meaning to do for 3-5 days now. And if you wanted to spend the flower money anyways, my children have a lot of degrees to live up to. I would love to he...
This is a small Amish settlement. There are actually two here, an ultraconservative Swartezntruber community and a more traditional one. Explore the backroads and find buggy shops, fresh flowers, eggs, and baked goods for sale. Dan Stutzman has a buggy shop near the town of Orleans....
Okay, fine. I REALLY like tufted armchairs. We own like, seven of them, and of course none of them match, and concerned friends have begun to remark that our living room has started to give off a funeral parlor vibe. Which, I’m told, can be kind of a buzz kill at your Queen Su...
I don’t know about you, but jet lag is the least of my issues when doing the continental shuffle. You thinkI’d be used to it by now, but a zillion little things always trip me up when I get to one side or the other. I get in the wrong side of the car. I have to remembe...