Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: We went to Seattle on the weekend to take in Seattle Opera’s production of Puccini’s Tosca.  It was superb. 

Dear Friends, Tangents: Literary birthdays this weekend: January 25th, 1759, Poet Robert Burns January 25th ,1874, writer W. Somerset Maugham. January 25th, 1882, Virginia Woolf. Virginis Woolf

Dear Friends, Tangents: Lord Byron’s birthday today, b. 1788 OCEAN From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep

Dear Friends, Tangents: KINDNESS      -Naomi Shihab Nye …before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest

Dear Friends, Tangents: I recently finished reading Edward Rutherford’s fabulous tome entitled Paris.  I highly recommend it.  It oscillates between La Belle Epoch