Reading and Roaming
With Valentine’s Day almost here, it seems appropriate to focus on love and romance and lighter fare. Here are some notes on TV viewing, recent reading and a restaurant (new to us) that would fill the bill for a delicious meal. ON THE SMALL SCREEN: Love and Lust Everyone learns early on that Henry VIII had …
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MUSICAL NOTES Did you ever realize that many of Richard Rodgers’ wonderful songs are waltzes? At Music Monday, we were treated to conversation with Edward Alley (conductor) and Marcus DeLoach (baritone) along with DeLoach’s warm and luscious renditions of “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” “Some Enchanted Evening,” and other songs from Showboat and South Pacific. Kudos …
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Visitors from the North You know it’s winter up north when your friends and relatives start showing up in Florida. Over the past few weeks, we’ve enjoyed getting together with a former colleague from San Francisco, entertaining two of the Chief Penguin’s former graduate students and their three almost adult children (do we feel old?), …
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RECENT READING I have two nonfiction books to recommend and, with you know who now in office, the first one about poverty seems especially appropriate. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. This is an important book and one that takes a different look at the lives of poor people in …
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