I don’t post as often as I would like because reading blogs is more enjoyable than writing them. I follow many now, but Nina’s was the first I followed and still my favorite. I especially think Lee and Ellen would enjoy her as much as I do. Lee, I think she is living in the Princton area, we just missed being her neighbor by 50 years. 🙂
[Last fall I registered for an adult education course that failed to attract a sufficient number of registrants and was therefore withdrawn. It was about “The Long Short Story.” I had already bought the books containing the six stories to be discussed, and don’t easily give in while there’s still hope. So I put up a post in which I offered to host a reading program with the professor’s curriculum if I had three takers — a foolhardy idea, as hardly anyone in Princeton knows I blog. But there was one brave soul, in a town just to the north, who raised her virtual hand. We’ll call her G.
And so G. and I, in an extremely leisurely way, began. We decided to meet every other Thursday at 2 p.m. (except for December, because G. has a large extended family for whom holiday preparations are time-consuming). We eliminated Faulkner and Conrad from the professor’s list and added a few authors of our…
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Nancy's Travel 2015 
As I noted on the post you re-blogged: “Thank you so much for the reblog and the wonderful words, Nancy. I hope your followers, who appreciate your wide-ranging photography so well, will have the patience for this v-e-r-y “wordy” post, especially as James Joyce wrote most of it!”
I’m hoping Lee, Ellen, and Austin will, at least. I so enjoy your writing, Nina.
Thanks, Nancy. I enjoyed the story…I’ve always been afraid to try Joyce but now I can say I’ve read a little anyway. 🙂