Arts
“Backcountry”: Next Time, Try a Cruise
If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that bad things happen when city folk go stomping around in the woods.
If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that bad things happen when city folk go stomping around in the woods.
Teenage years filled with fun and teen drama
Courting; romance; marriage.
Raising kids—cheering at Little League games.
Proud mother of three sons,
And then they are gone—pursuing their own dreams.
Empty nesters now.
New career to fill the empty spaces.
Time now for vacations and golf trips
And good friends.
Almost 60 years of a loving relationship.
Then time takes it’s inevitable toll.
Frailty, illness and finally loss.
Mourning, adjusting (but not really)
Trying to move on.
And then, just when resignation sets in
There comes a spark.
Unexpected, unbidden
And life is good again.
In the middle of a dreary March marked by frequent snows, cold rains and blustery winds, John and Jody Bowles and their friend Neal Spivey did a remarkable thing.
The human heart is a tremendously fickle organ — at least in Benoit Jacquot’s “3 Hearts.”
…an intriguing and well‐written novel, which despite its turn of the 20th century publication has relevance for today…