Reflections from a wicker chair on the porch...

Summer 2019 has been a busy one. Visitors from June11 til August 3. Including a camp out in Isabella for Aman Family Christmas in July. All ten Grands at various times. Azalea for nearly four weeks. The beach almost every day. Tea on the porch. I baked chocolate chip cookies, blueberry muffins and blueberry cheesecake bars as well as my banana cake. We celebrated our fiftieth wedding  anniversary with just our immediate family. Cade is turning 18 in a few days. The “four” Iris, Deve, Violet and Clay will all be 16 by 11/24. I love my family.

I am working on The Pop Sugar Challenge and The Read Harder Challenge for 2019. There are a few books I can’t get my head around. A business book, a litRPG book (what). I am broadening my horizons. I reread Flight Behavior by Barbara Kinsolver for a challenge and for the Nahma Book Club. It was even better than the first time around. Sometimes I like a reread of a book I loved because it is hard to pick really good books. My current read Pisces by Melissa Broder is inscrutable. Entertaining but what is it about??? Best books so far Flowers for Algernon, Where the Crawdads Sing and An American Marriage. I am in the middle of American Gods by Neil Gaiman. He has a way with words that I do appreciate.

I’ve seen a few movies, a little television. I loved only Poms with Diane Keaton and The Lion King out of several movies I didn’t really like. The only TV was Schitt’s Creek which is an exceptional family comedy. Funny and loving.