Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall, a powerful, eye-opening read prompting much reflection. Looking forward to discussing Hood Feminism in my book club next week.
Listening: To "Classical Essentials Mixtape" from Spotify as I fly back from Winter Institute.
Watching: After busy days of meetings and catching up at Winter Institute, I've been winding down while watching Later Daters. This show brings up a lot of thoughts and empathy around the struggles of middle-aged folks entering the dating scene after a divorce or the death of a spouse. And some wonderment about whether several of them are drinking too much on their dates!

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: I'm on vacation so fingers crossed that when you hear from me when I get back, I will have finished at least one book instead of just starting five more.
Listening: To the sounds of jaunty music and my own laughter while walking around Disney World.
Watching: People-watching at Disney is one of my favorite things.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood. Also, The Golden Notebook is once again back on my desk because during our last phone call, Mom said "I'm starting The Golden Notebook. I am distracted by the awful news all the time. I need a deep dive sort of story and this might be it." I will not let Mom deep dive alone!
Listening: Now that the weather is warmer, I have my Merlin app recording everything I didn't even realize I was hearing. On a more agonizing note, I have the audiobook of One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad queued up, after listening to his amazing interview on the Between the Covers podcast.
Watching: MNSP (Movie night with SP) this past weekend was The Illusionist with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, which I've seen before but she hadn't. For a murder mystery it is a quiet, beautiful little jewel box of a film that makes one long for life in a sepia-toned Vienna at the turn of the last century. But while I remembered it for its beauty, I was struck fresh by the acting of Norton and especially Giamatti. There is a lot of nuanced dialogue in this movie and a fair amount of it is entirely without words.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: The absolutely gorgeous Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939, which is the companion to the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the same name which in an amazing bit of synchronicity will be at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens during NVNR.
Écoute: FIP Pop, the pop music streaming channel on the Radio France app. This is not the French version of the Top 40, but about 60 years worth of popular music from around the world. It is completely unpredictable--the last few songs this morning have included Pulp, Serge Gainsbourg, The Smiths, and Beyoncé. No commercials, but a woman will pop in periodically and announce "FIP Pop" in the Frenchest way possible.
Watching: The Illusionist (2006). The plot (a tale of political intrigue, romance, magic, and the supernatural set in Vienna in 1900) is twisty and fun, but the standouts are the meticulous and beautiful production design (which seems mercifully free of CGI) and the pulsing Philip Glass score which evokes everything from Hitchcock to Wagner.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I just finished an early early bound manuscript of a great new book from Ashley Winstead, Future Saints. It's not her usual genre and I loved it!
Listening: The sounds of a snowy day in Richmond ― kids outside on the way to sled at the reservoir, and a lot of silence otherwise.
Watching: The last episode of Cobra Kai and gearing up to start the third season of White Lotus.