We’re back from the last convention of the season, and life is slowing down. It’s a good thing, because I came home with a pinched nerve, and am not supposed to be on the computer for more than 10 minutes in an hour. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to write in 10-minutes interval, but if you haven’t, I can tell you that it’s not the way to be creative and productive!<\/p>\n
I hope to catch up on a bit on my summer\u00a0reading list during the next few months. I finished Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey<\/em> last night (very funny), and am still reading a few other things. The none-too-organized TBR stack beside my chair includes:<\/p>\n That isn’t quite all the books in my stack, but I’m already over my allotted ten minutes, and I’d better stop typing. I’d love to hear what’s in your summer reading stack– please feel free to leave a list in the comments section. (BTW- I do know that the titles should be italicized, but I seriously need to get off before I run into my next 10-minute time slot!)<\/p>\n Since I’m so close to finishing the Excellence in Literature<\/em> project, I’d appreciate your prayers for the easing of this nerve, so that I can have the preliminary e-books ready for the coming school year.<\/p>\n Finally, a bit of Emily Dickinson for you (I was picking blackberries this evening, and thought of this) . . .<\/p>\n Would you like summer? Taste of ours. Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n The Beat-the-Clock Workshop that was previously announced for July 18 has been rescheduled to July 28 in the west end of Richmond. For more information or to register, visit www.EssayWorkshop.com. The information hasn’t been posted yet, but I’ll try to do it in one of my 10-minute spots tomorrow (Thursday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re back from the last convention of the season, and life is slowing down. It’s a good thing, because I came home with a pinched nerve, and am not supposed to be on the computer for more than 10 minutes...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[377,1749,392,545,555,868,304,907],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-bibliophile","tag-booklist","tag-books","tag-emily-dickinson","tag-essay-workshop","tag-poem","tag-reading","tag-reading-list"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\nSpices? Buy here!
\nIll! We have berries, for the parching!
\nWeary! Furloughs of down!
\nPerplexed! Estates of violet trouble ne’er looked on!
\nCaptive! We bring reprieve of roses!
\nFainting! Flasks of air!
\nEven for Death, a fairy medicine.
\nBut, which is it, sir?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n