A Luce Affiliation

Baby Nora was born 1 month ago.  She is our smallest, softest team member. It's been a nice slow time of year to be settling in to life with baby.  It's always quiet in Collingwood around new year anyway.  The cafes are closed, there's not much traffic on the roads and no one is rushing in the heat.  In the first few weeks I would go for a late afternoon walk around the streets.  I walked slower than I've ever walked.  And I felt so adventurous being outside in the world.  I would amble very slowly around the block, sometimes down Gold street or just along Johnston street.  Each afternoon I would try to return with a community update for Jason.  Important community updates included: an enormous branch fell off the gum tree in the park opposite our house.   A branch as big as a tree! the old men's club around the corner of our house started advertising a small dinner menu.  And the Sonsa man was there so it must be a Turkish club.  He gave me a friendly wave.

2015 was a bit of a strange year of reading for me. Fewer novels and more non-fiction.  Overall I read more than I thought I had. I'll begin with my top 5: Beloved- Toni Morrison Brother of the More Famous Jack- Barbara Trapido The Luminaries- Eleanor Catton The Natural Way of Things- Charlotte Wood Slouching towards Bethlehem- Joan Didion Books I read in 2015: Feminism Unfinished- Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner Big Magic- Elizabeth Gilbert The White Album- Joan Didion The Wife Drought- Annabel Crabbe M Train- Patti Smith The Shipping News- Annie Proulx The Thorn Birds- Colleen McCullough Beloved- Toni Morrison The Dressmaker- Rosalie Ham Green Valentine- Lili Wilkinson Birth Skills- Juju Sundin Feminism is for Everybody- bell hooks How to Be a Woman- Caitlin Moran My Brilliant Friend- Elena Ferrante The Intern- Gabrielle Tozer H is for Hawk- Helen McDonald Why so Slow? The Advancement of Women- Virginia V