Reading and Roaming
FEMALE CRIME FIGHTERS International Women’s Day was this week on March 8th. It seems appropriate, therefore, to focus on women in this post. In the olden days, TV detectives and police officers were pretty much always white men. It’s gratifying and fun to see women—brown, white, Indian, and Irish—as the lead characters in recent crime …
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PURE ENTERTAINMENT The Three Musketeers We had almost front row seats for the Asolo Theatre’s action-packed performance of Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers. The early 17th century was the era of duels and only the slightest of slights could result in being called out. Thus, there’s plenty of slashing and smashing of swords, leaping, and jumping about, and even …
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INTIMATE PORTRAIT The Chancellor by Kati Marton Members of my local book group enjoyed reading Marton’s portrayal of Angela Merkel. It’s an accessible biography of an intensely private woman in a prominent public position. It isn’t a comprehensive biography and does not provide detailed analysis of some of Merkel’s questionable decisions and actions. And the author is perhaps too …
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NATURE AND ART Robinson Preserve Manatee County is blessed with a collection of nature preserves, several fairly close by. We returned to Robinson Preserve twice in the past two weeks with my visiting sisters and brothers-in-law. It’s a great place for a winding walk up, down, and around several bodies of water. Each time we …
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