Reading and Roaming
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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HIGH NOTES Last weekend, friends introduced us to one more of the musical gems that grace our cultural landscape. In 2004, Toby Perlman, wife of famed violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman, founded the Perlman Music Program/Suncoast. This residency program in Sarasota brings together more than 30 young performers (ages 12-24) for about two weeks of …
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BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS I have always been a book person. When I was a toddler, my mother would take me in the Taylor Tot (a popular stroller, very basic by today’s standards) to the nearby branch library for bunches of picture books. I was an early and avid reader and soon bored by the Dick and …
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