Goodreads informed me that I’m six books behind on my annual goal. Yes. I’m falling behind after a great start to the year.
I have several books started and I’ve almost finished many of them. I just haven’t been pushing myself to do my for me reading. I need to remember to get some of these books done, too.
I’m coming up on finals week, so I’m going to fall a little further behind before moving forward. Summer session might be a little breather, or it might be a little more difficult than expected. I’m going to try to use the week between Spring and Summer sessions to breathe and take a little vacation. Hopefully a book or two will be finished on this breathing time.
I’m nearing the end of the semester. I was assigned a creative exercise for one of my classes. I thought and thought and finally figured out that I had all the equipment for a painting.
I made a fruit basket based on one of the poems we read, and using an abstract technique. I had to do an artist statement that included comments about the help from the animals. Hopefully the grade will be a passing grade.
As always, there’s a story. I had help with my painting. Molly decided to taste test the brushes. Just a lick of a clean brush was enough. She moved on to the chair for nap and observation time.
Later, when I had my music going, I forgot that I had an open tube of red paint in my hand. I was singing along, talking to Molly and moving to the music. Before too long, I had dripped paint onto the floor and into a box. It ended up all over. I closed the lid and cleaned up what I could. Paint was everywhere, especially on my hands. I called for help because my extra rags were in the drier and I didn’t want red paint on the clean clothes.
I managed to keep the paint off everything else. I cleaned up but still had paint under my cuticles for a few days. At least it was not on clothes or door knobs.
When it came to taking the photo, I had to enlist help. You can see my assistant’s finger impressions on the upper parts of the painting, since she was holding it from the back, so we could get the lighting with minimal background.
Now I get to finish up one more paper for this class and then I’m done with this class. One step closer to graduation. I’m checking things off the todo list slowly but surely.
I love the idea of drag queen story hour! They are all over the country, but today’s was on Zoom. The link is above, if you’d like to watch it.
Felicia “Fefe” Minor read several books about Star Wars for the children, and after the Star Wars books, she read Hidden Figures, but the children’s version. She included the displeasure of knowing how much the white males at NASA dominated the black women there. The book shows how important the female calculators were.
What a wonderful tweet to remind us to expand our reading range. I think this should apply to adults, too. Read something slightly out of your normal list. Pick up something different. Learn something new. Report back.
I haven’t been writing much here because I’ve been busy with trying to get a lot done. I can’t really say I’m failing because I have been getting things done by their deadlines. I’m just not getting ahead.
I’m 3 books behind on my annual reading goal, but I am pretty much caught up for school.
I haven’t finished packing for an upcoming trip, but I managed to get the suitcase out of the closet and put a few things into it.
I haven’t finished my school papers for the week, but nothing is overdue.
I haven’t written reviews for several books that I finished, but I’ve finished the books.
I know I’ll catch up soon, but I just need to be patient. I’ll get there.
I picked this up for bookclub. I really enjoyed the varied stories of Sleeping Beauty. They came together beautifully in this book to tell a modern story.
I look forward to reading the sequel. I hope it is just as good as the first book.
I picked this up as required reading for school. Audre Lorde is a favorite author and I was happy to read it.
I really enjoyed her story, even though there were so many ups and downs. This book ended when she was only in her early twenties, and she had already lived so much.
I really recommend this book, especially if you are familiar with the author’s other works. It was well worth the time.
None to date; are two international commemorations
In the past, I have posted for Black history month, Women’s history month, LGBT Pride month, and Hispanic-Latino Heritage month. I plan to do the same this year, as best as I can.