winter solstice
I have a few weeks off from work and I wish my wife could have the same time free from her job. Winter solstice happens on December 21, this year. Some day, I'd like to travel with her to various Celtic sites around the UK and Europe, preferably around the time of a summer solstice.
This afternoon, I dropped by the Squirrel Hill Library and picked up a few books, including The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, recently out from W.W. Norton. It's one of five books I carried home on this suddenly sunny and unseasonably warm day, also including a mystery, a book about food and how human consumption of it changed when people discovered how to cook it, another about why many people choose not to kill themselves after considering doing so, and a collection of short stories by Russell Banks. This fall, I had been teaching six classes, keeping busy with reading papers, so there hadn't been much time for leisure reading.
I hope to post more frequently here during my free time, and to read more of what's going on in your lives.
This afternoon, I dropped by the Squirrel Hill Library and picked up a few books, including The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, recently out from W.W. Norton. It's one of five books I carried home on this suddenly sunny and unseasonably warm day, also including a mystery, a book about food and how human consumption of it changed when people discovered how to cook it, another about why many people choose not to kill themselves after considering doing so, and a collection of short stories by Russell Banks. This fall, I had been teaching six classes, keeping busy with reading papers, so there hadn't been much time for leisure reading.
I hope to post more frequently here during my free time, and to read more of what's going on in your lives.