on what life will look like in 2021.
Of all the personal development opportunities presented by quarantine knitting, baking sourdough, starting a TikTok there is none so user-friendly as talking to yourself.
Sue Elliott-Nicholls, 52, an actress in Britain, had spent plenty of time listening to her own voice before the pandemic; she makes her living doing voice-overs for television. But when lockdown robbed her of co-worker banter and gossip spilled at the local pub, she began to fill her days with private chatter.
She didn’t always have much to say. “My conversations with myself are proper dull,” she said. “I’ll be like, ‘Should I wash my socks today?’ ‘Yeah, go on, do it today.’”
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I’ve written here before about the quality of “I-want-to-read-it-osity” that some books have, a hard to define but easy to see quality which I am going to refer to as “grabbyness.” There are books you can pick up and put down and happily pick up again, and then there are books that seem to glue themselves to your brain, that utterly absorb you. There are books that are great when you’re halfway through them but that take work to get into. Right now, the kind you can put down and the kind that are hard to get into don’t cut it, because they’re hard to focus on while fretting. For me, grabbyness is a quality entirely orthogonal to actual quality. There are grabby books that are only OK and great books that are not grabby. It also has nothing to do with how ostensibly exciting they are, nor how comforting they are. There are just books that are grabby and books that are not. What I’m talking about is the power to bring you rig
A Dolly Jolly Christmas
By Marilyn Delk - DCCA News
Dolly Parton has enjoyed an enormously successful musical career spanning over 50 years, delighting fans with an ever-expanding array of hit songs; but at this moment in time, Dolly’s notable talents and justifiable fame are almost eclipsed by the news that she is now a hero helping save the world from the coronavirus! This past spring, Dolly donated one-million dollars to Vanderbilt University Medical Center which worked with drugmaker Moderna to develop a soon-to-be released vaccine; her donation helped fund the critical early stages of the research. In typical Dolly fashion, the glamorous, self-effacing star said that she was excited to hear that her contribution provided a “little seed money that will hopefully grow into something great and help heal the world.”