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Maudie

Back inward the mid/late 1990s (come to intend of it, simply about the same timeframe equally my pregnancy alongside Katie & its aftermath), the banking concern I worked for announced a major cultural sponsorship inward the say where it had been founded. I had never heard of Maud Lewis before this, but over the side yesteryear side yr or so, I institute myself writing several articles for the staff newsmagazine well-nigh the sponsorship, which included a long national tour of Lewis's paintings; the restoration of her tiny, elementary domicile -- every spare inch of it decorated alongside gaily painted flowers, birds as well as butterflies; as well as its installation inward a novel permanent gallery within the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia inward Halifa x, along alongside a considerable collection of Lewis paintings. Employees wrote to enjoin us well-nigh their ain Lewis paintings as well as how they'd acquired them -- oft purchased conduct from Lewis or her married adult man ...
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Right now

Right now... (an occasional meme, alternating from fourth dimension to fourth dimension alongside " The Current "):   Reading:   " here before this year).   Watching:   " Designated Survivor " has been getting a chip featherbrained (every fourth dimension they larn remotely some figuring out who's behind the conspiracy, person gets killed), merely I'm inward this far, I'll live next it to the flavor finale (which should live coming upwards soon)...!  Dh & I started watching " Genius " lastly week, nigh Albert Einstein. He knows agency to a greater extent than than I produce nigh physics together with Einstein, merely it's to a greater extent than lather opera than scientific discipline ;)  and (two episodes in) we're both enjoying it. And of course, " The Handmaid's Tale ." Watched the kickoff 2 episodes on Bravo lastly sun nighttime together with looking frontward to the 3rd this weekend.  I sympathise that ...
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#MicroblogMondays: Watching The Handmaid's Tale

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Like many of you, I'm sure, I've been watching the novel tv set serial " here ). In the U.S., it's beingness shown on Hulu , which nosotros don't larn hither inwards Canada -- but it is beingness shown hither on the Bravo channel, which I exercise larn every bit business office of my cable TV package. Hulu releases novel episodes on Wednesdays, currently upward to episode 4;  Bravo broadcasts the demo on Sundays as well as nosotros but saw episode iii final night. There's a lot inwards both the mass & the TV demo that I tin relate to -- as well as non but because (even though the mass was written over thirty years ago) thus many of the events & themes depicted appear to go pulled at ane time from the headlines. :( For ane thing, the demo is filmed inwards Toronto;  I oftentimes recognize the buildings inwards the background (particularly inwards the "before" segments, where June/Offred is out & close inwards the city) as well as I ti...
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Option B past times Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant

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Four years ago, Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, published a mass called " here ). In the book, she lauded her husband, Dave Goldberg, for beingness a supportive married adult man together with involved father, together with i of her primal messages to women was the importance of choosing a partner who would back upwards them at habitation equally good equally alongside their professional person goals. Two years later, on May 1, 2015, Sandberg of a abrupt became a widow together with the unmarried woman raise of 2 immature children, when Goldberg died of a abrupt at historic menstruum 47, spell they were on opor-garai alongside friends inwards Mexico. Another 2 years has passed since Goldberg's death, together with Sandberg, together alongside her friend Adam Grant, a professor at Wharton University, has written a novel mass drawing from her together with her children's experiences alongside grief together with loss, together with how they di...
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Retail therapy :)

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I bring ever subscribed to the philosophy that "when the going gets tough... the tough become shopping,"  lol. H5N1 novel lipstick or majority has oft lifted my spirits later a crappy twenty-four sixty minutes catamenia at work. And what could live on tougher for a bereaved childless woman bring upward to confront than Mother's Day (aka Voldemort Day -- That Which Shall Not Be Named) weekend?? Fortunately, some shiny novel bling arrived inwards my mailbox this afternoon to distract me. :) I bring wanted i of these for eons, in addition to I decided late that I'd waited long enough. I ordered it a few weeks agone from a local Etsy dealer ( here's the website , inwards representative you're interested), in addition to happily, it arrived but inwards fourth dimension for the weekend. I don't know whether the post-purchase high volition final me through Lord's Day night... but it won't hurt, lol. (I gauge I could bring saved this post for ...
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#MicroblogMondays: Voldemort Day/weekend recap

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*   Voldemort Day  is over. TGIM! ;) * Thankfully, it was non equally bad equally roughly years. My common strategy is to enshroud out at the movies, together with my pick this yr was " Snatched " amongst Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn -- admittedly, a mother-daughter movie, merely what a pairing!! It won't win whatever Oscars merely it was mindless fun. (Bonus!:  It was also far less busy at the home than it sometimes is -- lots of parking & minimal lineups for tickets & popcorn.) * I am dorsum to eating popcorn (yay!!), later avoiding it piece my endless dental go was underway. :p * Yes, I wore my novel necklace . :) * Unfortunately, I was inwards a lot of discomfort all solar daytime amongst midcycle cramping & bloating/mittelschmerz. (It's amend today, though even together with thence non 100%.)  When oh when volition Aunt Flo lastly laissez passer upwardly the ghost??!! *  We washed the patio door/windows, which hadn't been done all winter...
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Killers of the Flower Luna past times David Grann

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Around the same fourth dimension that I finished David Grann's "The Lost City of Z" a few months agone (my review here ), I heard the author had a novel mass coming out soon. I made a mental banking concern annotation to sentry for it in addition to bought it on sale shortly after its unloosen terminal month. :) I'm glad I did.   Entertainment Weekly has called it  "the best mass of the twelvemonth thence far," (and patently a pic is already inward the works). It's a gripping read, 1 that kept me upward slow several nights inward a row, promising myself that I would read "just 1 to a greater extent than chapter..." earlier turning out the lights... ;) " Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders in addition to the Birth of the FBI " tackles a forgotten -- in addition to extraordinarily shameful -- chapter inward American history in addition to the (mis)treatment of American Indians. After beingness driven off their abode terr...
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