by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 19, 2017 | 60 to 60, Columbus GA, continuous life, life, marriage, memory, reading, time, truth |
And just like that… I’m almost 50. 2004: My stomach issues post-hysterectomy require a trip to the Mayo Clinic. From there I go straight to Miraval–one of their ads caught my attention–but for my next spa visit, I will return to Canyon Ranch....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 18, 2017 | 60 to 60, Columbus GA, continuous life, life, marriage, memory, reading, time, truth |
2003: I try the Golden Door Spa, but it feels like famine. While I’m there, I do a silent meditation walk, and before I can stop myself, I’m judging the way people walk. We listen to Dave Matthews as Bobby learns how to drive–Ants Marching,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 15, 2017 | 60 to 60, Columbus GA, continuous life, marriage, memory, reading, time, truth |
At dinner one new year’s eve, my father told us that one day it wouldn’t be 19 anything; it would be 2000. And when it was the year 2000, he said, he would be 67. He laughed, as if that were something he didn’t believe possible. Then he went around...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 14, 2017 | 60 to 60, Columbus GA, continuous life, life, marriage, memory, reading, time, truth |
1999: Across the pond, the euro is born, but here at home, there are carpools times a thousand, dentist appointments, doctor appointments, snacks for all the various games, watching the various games, school conferences, the grocery times a thousand, the meals that...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 26, 2015 | 1 true thing, reading |
I’m not reading enough, especially for a summer vacation. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily practice
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 16, 2015 | 1 true thing, reading |
I read a lot of books at one time. Right now I’m reading Abigail Thomas’s What Comes Next and How to Like It (memoir); Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed (essay anthology); Donald Hall’s Essays After Eighty, Hermione Lee’s Penelope Fitzgerald A...
