I put down my paintbrush and picked up the pen. Today was the first day of the Cape Cod Writers Center Annual Summer Conference held at the Craigville Conference Center. This is my second year attending and it’s what I describe as day camp for adults. I love the fact that you don’t ever have . . . → Read More: Summer Camp Begins
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I have spent the summer reading the Mitford series by Jan Karon. The main character is an episcopal priest. Now, you may think, just as I did, how could a book about an episcopal priest be even close to interesting? A sixty two year old priest at that. That’s what I said to my friend . . . → Read More: Father Tim – My Hero Today was a really great day. It started off with Breakfast With the Authors at the Hyannis Yacht Club. Just driving there I was elated with just being alive and living on Cape Cod. Elin Hilderbrand, author of my favorite beach reads, was one of the speakers. Hearing her journey was fun and inspiring. If . . . → Read More: Journey’s Ending Less than two weeks til the gang arrives for the fourth…and there’s still doors to paint in the girls room, a whole lotta stuff crammed in my room that has to disappear, the changing of my wardrobe for the season, the downstairs room to ready for guests, food to consider, and a general yard, garage, . . . → Read More: Beach Justification Today I spent the day reading Cutting For Stone. It was a cozy, dark, rainy day – just right to curl up with a book. This is an amazing story, so well written, and full of insight beyond the storyline. Too many thought lines pushed past me today to stop and give equal attention to . . . → Read More: Too Many Thoughts… “The tea ritual: such a precise ritual of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple, authentic and refined sensations; a license given to all, at little cost, to become aristocrats of taste, because tea is the beverage of the wealthy and the poor; the tea ritual, therefore has the extraordinary virtue of . . . → Read More: The Ritual of Tea I have just finished reading Left Neglected by Lisa Genova. This was a fascinating story of a young woman, living with her husband and three kids in Boston. She is a high powered executive with a very busy life. One day, on her way home from work she was using a cell phone and got . . . → Read More: Left Neglected *blog for 3/24 – written last night, but there were too many dvr’d shows when I got home to allow for editing and publishing. 🙂 A book club was born in my yoga class – we’d sit on our mats before class and discuss our current reads, then someone said, “We should have a book . . . → Read More: We Are Our Parents Children…or Are We? I just finished the book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrnes. As I started reading it a few days ago, I was really excited about it’s message of the law of attraction. All the presenters, including one of my favorite authors, Lisa Nichols, were really convincing and inspiring. Now, after having finished the book last week . . . → Read More: The Secret to “The Secret” Began reading “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne today about the way our thinking shapes our destiny. It’s based on the time honored principal that “what you think about, you bring about”. This is supposed be some kind of secret weapon, once mastered, we can use to shape our entire life. I have only just entered . . . → Read More: New Book! |
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