Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Good Hair Days by Grace Helena Walz. Described as a modern twist on Steel Magnolias with a little extra Dolly Parton flair, this Atlanta-based novel delivers on family drama, love, forgiveness, and the importance of good hair (as in, well-maintained and styled with oodles of product).
Listening: I’m at a writing residency this week and word is I’m staying in the most haunted room at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. I hear it all: the creaks and groans, the mysterious voices, doors opening and closing down the hall, and someone snoring in the unoccupied room next door. It’s really doing a number on my “I don’t believe in ghosts” stance.
Watching: It’s beautiful here in Southern Pines, NC. Today I spent a little time feeding apples to horses and watching white-tailed deer eat grass in the pastures beside the Center.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: The Nature of Oaks by Douglas Tallamy. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys. And a book I got for my mother, but started reading first: Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters 1940-1949 edited by Julia Eichelberger. Also, Mom and I have set aside cookie recipes to start on...fruit cake recipes! And because there is a terrible, dreadful shortage of organic Florida oranges, we had to make our own candied orange peel using California oranges.
Listening: There is an old episode on the Slightly Foxed podcast dedicated to Jean Rhys with one of my favorite biographers, Miranda Seymour, as the main guest. It made me put Rhys on my list of "writers worth binge-reading."
Watching: We finished the Ken Burns series American Revolution (and by the way, it is worth splurging on the accompanying book, which tells you all about the paintings you see in the series). I have also, because Mom and Dad are fans, seen several Bills football games, which I don't mind because I find football easy to tune out when I am working.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Looking forward to reading Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight for book club.
Listening: My Spotify Wrapped told me my listening age was 22 so I retaliated by listening to a lot of Van Morrison and Nina Simone.
Watching: I finished The American Revolution. It was thrilling, beautiful, moving, horrifying, inspiring, and profoundly and utterly sad. I was sorry when it was over. I would have watched another twelve hours.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I just finished the most fun Poe-themed Middle Grade mystery - Ellen Poe and the Forgotten Lore by Diana Peterfreund. It's a great mystery set in Baltimore with a ton of Edgar Allan Poe lore.
Listening: According to my Spotify Wrapped, a lot of the Handsome podcast this year. That tracks!
Watching: Minx, a fun and bawdy short-lived show about a women's magazine in the 70's. I'm bummed there were only two seasons!