MOVIES AT HOME In this age of online video and fast migration from movie screen to TV screen, it’s possible to view many first run movies at home almost immediately after their release. Here are two relatively recent films we just watched. We rented each one for 48 hours for the nominal fee of $5.99, much cheaper …
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Tidy Tidbits: Mostly Books
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES This year, for perhaps the first time ever, we stayed home for Christmas and purchased and put up a live tree. In more recent years, we’ve gone to Manhattan for about ten days to see family. This time, our son and family and our daughter-in-law’s parents all came to Florida. With lively granddaughters ages 6 ½ …
Tidy Tidbits: Culture Notes
MORE BESTS As I indicated last week, the newspaper world is full of bests. Even our local paper, Herald Tribune, offered up a selection of the best books of the year. And the New York Times seems to have gone overboard with each of its distinctive sections having its own, “The Best of 2018” edition. On Sunday, “Arts & Leisure” had …
The Season of Lists
Some of us make lists all year long: to-do lists, grocery lists, shopping lists, and the like. I am an inveterate list maker, always have been. As was my mother so I suppose I inherited this tendency as did at least one of my sisters. It’s satisfying to create a list and then check off items as they are …
