Reading and Roaming
VIEWING UPLIFTING FILM On the Basis of Sex (Amazon Prime) Somehow, I missed seeing this film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career when it was first released. This week seemed the right time. Based on RBG’s life, it isn’t a documentary, but a wonderfully satisfying success story. First in her law school class at Harvard and first in her …
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A visit to Selby Gardens was a restorative and the TV program, Islands of Wonder: Madagascar, both stunning and memorable since I spent 3 weeks there in 2009.
BINGEING ON CRIME DCI Banks (Amazon Prime) This detective series is a BBC production from several years ago. I think it is excellent. Alan Banks is a middle-aged chief inspector in Yorkshire with a dour demeanor and a sometimes-sour look. You’d think he’d be hardnosed, but underneath that façade, he is compassionate toward victims and diplomatic when necessary. Yet, he …
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WINDING DOWN MAINE Our airline threw us a curve when it changed our departing flight from a very civilized 12:45 pm to before sunrise at 6:00 am. Thus, we left our rental house a day early, drove down to Portland and spent the night at the airport Hilton Garden Inn,. We’d been told that the hotel was …
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