570News Blog: Lisa Drew

The sunshine is truly here..none of that stormy, broody stuff from the last week or so.  The less-than-perfect weather just meant more time curled up on the couch
and out on the porch on the wicker chair, just reading.

We had a great week at the cottage.  We started up in Huntsville for the long weekend.  The long drive up was worth it. ( Way too much traffic for a Saturday morning!)
While the sun was out - I finally got some sea legs and got a ride on a jet-ski.  The kids were sent thru the air tubing.  Our five-year-old also experienced what he calls his ” best campfire ever”! 
Then we headed to the family cottage on Lake Erie.

I did get through two books, and am now into number three, so it was a good week off despite the weather.

I loved (loved!) Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay.  It surrounds life and love at a radio station in Yellowknife in the 1970’s.  It really captures the daily life and characters found at a radio station.
It also follows a life-changing canoe trip the group from the station makes.  Beautifully written, I wish there was more.

Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald chronicles her stay in India.  She and her husband are reporters,
and she is adjusting to the India way of life while he covers the political unrest around 9/11.
She charts her own religious journey.   The book is an updated, hipper version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. 

I am now halfway thru A Complicated Kindess by Miriam Toews…and I’m already in love with Nomi.  She’s a very Juno-like young Mennonite woman trying to make sense of why her mother and sister just up and left.

I still have my eye on some bio’s, and way too many decorating and current affair magazines left stacked up by the bag of dirty laundry at the back door.
I just have to shake the sand out of them…and find some more time.

lisa