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What Are You Reading?
During the last 48 hours, I crisscrossed the country and finally got the chance to catch up on back issues of The New Yorker. As far as a magic ring, I wear my mother’s wedding band.
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Highly approve of your magic ring.
Actually, I wear 2 of my Mom’s rings nested. I love them.
I kind of like the magic marker.
Hope it’s washable.
Right now I’m reading “Man’s Search for Meaning”. I didn’t have the chance to take psych at university, so I’m trying to catch up a bit now.
Prior to that I read, “Happiness at Work” by the Dalai Lama. I really needed that because work was starting to wear me down far too much.
Wendy, it’s lovely you wear your mom’s wedding band.
For a while, I was also wearing my grandmother’s eternity band. But it’s very old and fragile, and not for everyday.
Do you wear the ring on your left hand? Do many women who aren’t marry wear wedding bands?
I wear it on the middle finger of my right hand.
Juliet, from my very narrow slice of experience, I think the guidelines about this have eased. I know married women who don’t wear wedding rings; I’ve seen unmarried gals wearing a ring on the left ring finger; some wear their wedding ring on their right hand.
I would love to wear my mother’s engagement ring (diamond was gone so I replaced it with my birthstone) and wedding band, but the only comfortable finger for me would be my left ring finger. I should stop worrying that people might think I’m married, and wear it in memory of her.
Kathy, I say wear your Mom’s rings on your left hand proudly!
Counting the days to Isabel Allende’s new novel, Maya’s Notebook. Out on Tuesday!
That’s a good thing to look forward to. I’ll keep an eye out.
Counting the days (Tuesday) to Isabel Allende’s new novel, “Maya’s Notebook.
Just finished Jeffrey Sachs’s The Price of Civilization. It was an eye opening book about how America has lost its way economically and socially among other things. He is optimistic that we can turn things around before it’s too late. My next read is less heavy, it’s Dr. George Sheehan’s Running & Being.
I heard Jeffrey Sachs speak, once, and it was one of the most inspirational nights ever.