Reading and Roaming
SNAPSHOTS OF EASTER When I was a child and young adult, Easter was a major holiday. Not major like Christmas, but certainly notable and celebrated. Those celebrations included Easter baskets stuffed with green plastic grass and an assortment of jelly beans (the spice ones were the best!) and colorful foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. If one was …
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With the exception of the lecture we heard, these films and books all focus on women—young women, angry women, and one, a queen. BINGEING ON MOVIES AT HOME The Chief Penguin and I are trying to catch up on some of this past year’s best films, or at least ones that got a lot of …
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CRUISING Some folks choose a cruise for the ports of call, others for just the experience of being at sea. The motivation for our five-day Western Caribbean cruise was a gathering of the Chief Penguin’s cousins. Some of these cousins saw each other weekly as kids, but hadn’t spent any appreciable time together in years …
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This was a fun week filled with theater, opera, dinners out and in, and long conversations with old and new friends. SMALL SCREEN After war in early 20th century Morocco, I’ve taken up a Kiwi crime series. The Brokenwood Mysteries (available on Acorn) are set on the North Island in a very small fictional …
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