Hi Folks, I hope this posting finds you well and enjoying the season as best you can. I’m still staying pretty close to home, however I do spend some time working out to try to get back in shape as well as visiting with friends on a limited basis. Life is beginning to open up, …
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ARTFUL READERS CLUB “WENCH” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Here’s MY cover for this book…different from the book’s real cover. THIS cover tells you, immediately, the theme and genre of “WENCH…” historical fiction about our pre-Civil War period…a period that history books cover only so far. It takes place, primarily, at an American resort in Ohio…a northern state where our protagonists, who are slaves, …
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TRAVEL and TEARS
Hi Dear Ones, It’s almost the weekend , RELAX time…not that my life is particularly hectic. But, I’ve started working out again and am thrilled to be slowly creeping out of my bubble. Hard to imagine it’s August already and summer fun here in New York is just beginning. Mask wearing and hand washing is …
SUNDAY POSTCARD ART: Night Sky
Through the inky night A peaceful, star-filled, dark sky Envelops my heart For this week, Sunday Postcard Art (sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com) has asked artists to create a piece with the night sky in mind. This gave me the opportunity to recall when my husband and I traveled far up in northern Canada to experience the Aurora Borealis. …
Artist, Lee McKenna DIGITALMANIA
Australian artist LEE McKENNA loves to create collages. To her, they’re like found paper treasures embracing “imperfections of old, used , discarded and damaged papers…papers that depict moments in time, often bearing marks and traces of a past life and the human hand.” DIGITALMANIA (https://www.flicker.com/groups/digitalmania) art challenge group has introduced us to Lee…to inspire us …
ARTFUL READERS CLUB “The Black Swan of Paris” by Karen Robards
“…A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected.” Paris, 1944*** Internationally celebrated songstress, Genevieve Dumont, is both a star and a smokescreen. An active, though unwilling member of an underground French Resistance cell as well as a reluctant darling to the Nazis in occupied France, Mademoiselle Dumont’s position of privilege …
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MIRRORS and CIRCLES…and UMBRELLAS
Who am I really? Who am I in others’ eyes? I DO see myself… This week’s task set up by art challenge group SUNDAY POSTCARD ART (sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com) is to create art including a mirror or mirrors. It was a fun challenge… There’s been so much in the news about the horrors of racism…I guess I …
MASCULINE
Summer branches yawn breezes tickle my toes… snowfall sky ahead 🙂 I don’t know if THE THREE MUSES (thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com) was thinking SUMMER when they called for artists to create a masculine themed piece of art, but I took it that way and ran with it. Hope you’re enjoying YOUR summer in safety and in good …
ARTFUL READERS CLUB Review: “The Girls with No Names” by Serena Burdick
Historical Fiction at it’s best, THE GIRLS with NO NAMES by Serena Burdick creates a tapestry of New York City in the early 1900’s. It’s made up of immigrants and the tenements that were their homes on the mean streets of a burgeoning city, of the Romani (gypsies) who camped in the woods near the …
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MIDDLE AGES ART
Middle Ages doesn’t refer to my age, as I guess I’m considered elderly by today’s standards. I certainly don’t feel it!! It seems that SUNDAY POSTCARD ART (sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com) has requested art with a Middle Ages or medieval theme. Since I’m in the process of creating a Middle Ages-themed deck of cards, this fits right into …
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