Recommended Reading

1. In the Image: A Novel, by Dara Horn (softcover edition, W.W. Norton & Company, 2003).

http://www.amazon.com/Image-Novel-Dara-Horn/dp/0393325261/

2. When You Have to Say Goodbye: Loving and Letting Go of Your Pet, By Dr. Monica Mansfield, with illustrations by Lennie Peterson (hardcover, Beanpole Books, 2011).

I have heard Dr. Mansfield, who is a veterinarian, on The Jordan Rich Show, on Boston radio station WBZ-AM. The book is geared to children, ages five and older.

http://www.amazon.com/When-You-Have-Say-Goodbye/dp/0983103216/

3. Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, By Sharon Salzberg (softcover edition, Riverhead Trade, 2003).

http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Trusting-Your-Deepest-Experience/dp/1573223409/

From The Huffington Post: "College Towns: Consider These 16 Communities For Retirement"

One of the places on the list:  the beautiful city of Charlottesville, Virginia.  (I lived there from the spring of 1995 until the start of 2001, and loved the time I spent there.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/college-towns-draw-retirees_n_1431694.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl19%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D165134#s544979&title=Charlottesville_VA