Week End

This week has gone by in a blur of multi-state travel, excel spreadsheets, a Field Day, and a wedding.  [I think every manager should have to instruct groups of K-5th graders to create a circle quickly.  This was test one's ability to vary communication to an audience.]

I'm still making progress on The Goldfinch.  Hope you're having a good weekend filled with things that make your heart happy.

I'm on a Boat II

sometimes days run from 7 to midnight and there's no time to read
you manage a morning paper and a few lines from social feed
evening boat with wind in your hair and water's good deed
lucky yet, a view for a sunset succeed

Tell Me About It

With the sun making its slow drop across the sky and perhaps your evening reading water in hand on the porch, this interview with Lynn Barber is just the thing to hold the Sundays at bay just a bit longer.  Decca Aitkenhead had me laughing more than a few times with her piece.  Barber seems like just the woman we would love to have at a GBC meeting.  Her second memoir is out this month:  A Curious Career.  

From Sea to Shining

...
I leave, imagining myself on the stern of a ship
nosing into Ellis Island, looking back at
the green lady, looking back, back at the sea.

from Ellis Island by J.R. Solonche

Looking back at Ellis Island
April 2014