6/21/2023 0 Comments Steinbeck travels with charley![]() ![]() What’s not to like?īut I still pine for Texas. The regional airport is surprisingly good. Daily I get to drive through an 18th-century Moravian village called Bethania, never failing to wonder at its historical mystique. We like our house and our hilly, forested neighborhood. I stifled my impulse to answer: “I miss everything about Texas!”ĭon’t get me wrong. Once we confirmed that (“Yep, moved up from Dallas”), she asked what we missed about Texas. She garnered that we were new to Winston-Salem. ![]() The lady with fairy hair was similarly rebuked and thus we found ourselves standing together. And I was the only other purchaser in sight. except there were no shoppers walking by. Apparently, this large gap needed to be left open for shoppers walking by. Stuck in my “miffed-ness,” I was smarting from a gruff rebuke by a glum cashier who told me to move back to the roped-off area to wait my turn. “That is sooo cool,” Helen exclaimed, and the two of them jumped into an animated conversation about how the sparkles were interwoven and how long they would stay attached. It’s called “Fairy hair,” and probably everyone on this planet had seen it except for Helen and me. Penney, I barely noticed the petite woman with sparkly threads in her hair who had slipped behind me in line. ![]() Standing slightly miffed in a roped-off spot ten feet back from the cashiers’ island at J. I found a book club! Rather, it found me. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us. ![]()
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