Tag: book club
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Book Club (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 13)
Another evening of stimulating conversation, laughter, and an interesting read for our bi-monthly book club. This time, a play — Sweat by Lynn Nottage. Timely in reflecting many of the themes we see playing out in society today. The club selection two months earlier was Al Franken’s latest book, Giant of the Senate, a sobering yet humorous…
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Supporting the Little Guys
As the crab apple trees and lilacs both came into their full glory, filling the yard with the fragrance of a delayed Spring, I took an additional day of vacation to extend a long weekend, and frantically scrambled to eliminate as much dog and cat hair as possible, while putting together an extra-special spread for…
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A Good Book is Never Out of Place
Books are a permanent and essential fixture in our home. Over the years, as I review photographs and memories, I realize that books are fixtures in our lives, not just our home. In the past year or two, I have made room in my life for a book club of wonderfully interesting women. We meet…
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Female Friendships: Keeping Me Afloat in the Sea of Testosterone
I love my husband. I love my teenaged boys. Thank goodness for my female friendships. These were my thoughts as I drove home from book club this evening. In my rather unscientific study of the subject of the differences between men and women, undertaken while raising two boys and enjoying over 20 years of marriage to…
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In Memory of Bryce Courtenay and The Power of One: It’s Never Too Late to Start Writing
“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through…
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