![]() Most outages were Central Hudson customers in counties like Duchess and Putnam, where winter storm warnings were in effect until late Tuesday. Nearly 14,000 tri-state customers were without power as of 10:30 p.m. The day will start windy and struggle to get much above the low 40s, though it will be dry and sunny. Those powerful gusts will drop wind chills into the 20s and teens by Wednesday morning. Gusts of 40-50 mph are likely throughout the night for coastal areas in New Jersey, Connecticut and on Long Island. Some of the strongest winds have been reported along the Jersey Shore, which was largely bereft of snow but still had plenty of wind and rain, as gusts topped 50 mph in some spots.Ī wind advisory is in effect into the overnight hours. She reviews both fiction and non-fiction for The Telegram.The precipitation will die down overnight into Wednesday, but strong winds will remain a big concern - and not just for the areas that saw heavy snow. Joan Sullivan is editor of Newfoundland Quarterly magazine. The characters have real grit, authenticity and volume and the prose is infused with wit, honesty and flavour. This is a structure with momentum and an unflinching tone ¬- Cleo doesn’t let herself off the hook and no one will come away with a romanticized notion of childbirth or caring for an infant. The chapters, all aptly titled, are short, sometimes not even a page. The story is divided into three parts, with an epilogue. The doorbell rang just as the crisp was caramelizing along the edges, pink liquid from the berries oozing up from the sides and rising up through holes in the topping like miniature geysers.” This is the first novel from Willow Kean, who is also an actress and playwright and writes about food, one of the many nice touches here: “Dessert was bubbling in the oven and it smelled nice, a small bit of comfort on such a cold night. Was Donna right? Did she have a duty to bring a child into the world to counterbalance all the crazy people having babies? If Fran’s kid took after her, it was doomed to a future of racking up credit card bills and yelling at housekeepers.” Cleo was so far away from a place like that she could’ve sat down on the kitchen floor and cried.”Īnd yet: “There’s a tug on something in her that she doesn’t quite know what to do with. It smelled like being on a whitewashed patio in Greece, all fruity and sunny and warm. “She poured some oil and balsamic in a small bowl and sniffed the olive oil bottle before putting the cap back on. “We should be so lucky,” being Nancy’s verdict.Īnd babies, by nature, bring a lot of changes. Nancy’s mother-in-law, Hazel, has pressured her into having Mack baptized - the last wish of her own 96-year-old mother, who is, apparently, dying. But Cleo’s not the only one with over-invested relatives. It’s soon awkwardly clear that Jamie has shared their plans with his parents. “He’s already talking about two kids and moving to the suburbs.” How would a child affect these family dynamics? “Jamie and I had the talk,” she tells Donna as work resumes after the holidays. ![]() Cleo and Jamie are always welcome, but never obliged to show up. In town, Maisie alternates a traditional Sunday dinner with more exotic flavour-of-the-week meals. They mark any family event with a celebration and a full turkey dinner, which Jamie and Cleo are expected to attend along with his sister, Krista, who had her first baby at 15 and is now a mother of five. They “drop by” when on Costco shopping excursions and that means tea and deliveries of tins of Nanaimo bars and trays of tetrazzini casserole and, if there’s a dirty dish in the house, Evelyn cleans it. Jamie’s parents, Evelyn and Hector, live in Clarenville. “Eyes in Front When Running” is the debut novel from Willow Kean. On some level, Cleo fears she basically ruined her mother’s artistic dreams. ![]() Her mother went to Paris in the 1970s to dance and came home pregnant. Nan, whom Cleo calls Nalfie, is also a close and significant influence.Ĭleo doesn’t know who her father is. Cleo’s mother, Maisie, met her stepfather, Joe, a firefighter, when Cleo was two. Her own family background is not a typical nuclear family. ![]() Her other good friend, Donna, doesn’t have kids. She saw what her friend and co-worker Nancy went through, with two miscarriages, though now she has two-year-old Mack. Cleo isn’t sure and the one thing she does know is she’s 38, which cuts her odds of conceiving and would classify her as “a geriatric mother” should she get pregnant. ![]()
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