Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Donna Leon’s Doctored Evidence, a charming way to visit Venice through this mystery series. Fascinating to view cultural differences, like the inspector’s habit of indulging in a couple of glasses of wine with a big lunch, followed by a nap, before returning to work in the afternoon. His workdays may stretch till eight o'clock in the evening, but the quality of his daily experience represents a life richly spent.
Listening: To folk instrumentals or classical music on Pandora, and to the sounds of birds around our neighborhood. We lost many trees during the hurricane (40% of the trees in the Asheville area were downed or severely damaged) so not sure if it's the lack of tree cover or the time of year, but noticing an unusual amount of cooper’s hawks, owls, and other birds of prey.
Watching: The latest season of All Creatures Great and Small and Darby and Joan.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: About halfway through Breath of the Dragon. Also reading some business books, the most recent being Danny Caine's How to Protect Bookstores and Why and Kathryn Finney's Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business if You're Not a Rich White Guy.
Listening: Still on The Lotus Empire. Also listening to the beautiful silence of the winter.
Watching: Still binging through Schitt's Creek! But The Traitors season 3 has just been released, and Severance season 2 is being released this week, so those will take precedence soon!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter. Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. Helen in Egypt by H.D.
Listening: Still with Middlemarch narrated by Juliet Stevenson. Dragging it out.
Watching: Mostly, news about the LA fires. But also a video class from Tatter on "Beginning Handsewing." Because #4 on my list of New Year's resolutions is to learn how to hem in an even, straight line. Me? I list. I drift.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: When my favorite uncle died years ago, I inherited his complete set of Walt Kelly's Pogo comics collections, and I finally have a place for them all. As a child in the late 1960s, I tried to read the daily newspaper strip--Kelly got his start with Walt Disney and the little animals were so cute--but I never understood it until years later. It was dense with wordplay and pointed political satire, reflecting both Kelly's wit and his unwavering progressive beliefs. I don't know that I will read all 40 volumes, but I am very glad they live on my shelves.
Listening: I woke up this morning to notifications that there was a new episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast about William Golding and new music from Sunny War. So I know what I will be listening to!
Watching: A recent visit from my daughter meant a The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City binge watch. What can I say? We both laughed so hard we almost fell off the couch.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: House of My Mother by Shari Franke - what a sad, wild story!
Listening: Richmonder Lucy Dacus just released a new song that I will be playing nonstop until the whole album comes out in March
Watching: Pinball State finals are this weekend so I am planning to watch my friends compete on the streamed broadcast to cheer them all on to victory!