December 2020 - Susana Field

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This is Me in 2020

December 31st, 2020susanafield0 Comments

This is me in 2020. It was a year of reading.72 books, or thereabouts, about half of which were nonfiction and most of which were read on my hammock.2 were Classics: War and Peace, and Moby Dick.About 1/3 were audiobooks.All were free (via our son’s USA online library or The Fussy Librarian).My favorite nonfiction book was Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.My favorite fiction book was The Overstory by Richard Powers.Both made me feel like my brain was gloriously tripping on marijuana out in the wilderness and I was in my twenties. While reading them, I …

A “Too-Hard” November: Nica Nugget #109

December 23rd, 2020susanafield1 Comment

November was just too hard, bracketed early on as it was by two Category 4 hurricanes which slammed into the same place on the northeastern shore of Nicaragua. As if seven months of the coronavirus weren’t enough. And coming right after a rainy month of October already. On November 3, the first hurricane, Eta, hit the northeast coast, miles away from us down here in the southwestern corner of Nicaragua as we are. But it still brought 8 days of torrential rain to us. And cold. In anticipation, fishermen had pulled their boats out of San Juan Bay. Workers had …