Reading and Roaming
MARVELOUS MUSEUM The name may be bland, but the South Florida Museum in Bradenton is doing big things! The Chief Penguin and I were delighted to be at their groundbreaking this week for a new addition. It’s an education wing with several new classrooms along with the Mosaic Backyard Universe. The classrooms will enable them …
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DIARIES. As someone who has kept journals of one sort or another most of my life, I’m also interested in the diary as a fictional device. Here are a few words about my journaling and notes on two recent novels where diaries are key to the underlying story. My first diary, which I no longer have, …
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It was a week for birds, manatees, and several very good films. WILDLIFE My sister Ann is more of a nature person than I am. She and Paul visited us this past week and they both enjoyed seeing the shore birds from our lanai. Lots of great white egrets, white and a few brown pelicans, …
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As December comes to a close, I’d like to be optimistic that 2018 will be a more civilized year. This year has been challenging on the national level and reading the daily newspaper an exercise in anger, frustration, and discouragement. Just perhaps, things will get better in the new year, and we can again be …
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