Reading and Roaming
STACKS OF BOOKS One of my January pleasures is eying my stack of new books waiting to be read. In our family, books are frequent Christmas gifts, and I eagerly anticipate adding to my Kindle list or stack of new titles. This year was no exception and before the year even turned over, I got underway on …
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WATCHING: A Star Reflects Jay Kelly (Netflix) If you’re one of George Clooney’s many fans, then you will want to see this film. Jay Kelly is the story of one famous movie star’s reflecting on his past life, his successes, but mostly his shortcomings and omissions. Stunned by the death of a mentor, and then …
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TRAVEL IN WINTER: A DAY OF SMALL ADVENTURES Arriving at the Airport Fortunately, the Chief Penguin and I are planners and early people. We routinely arrive at the airport 2 hours before flight time—earlier if he sets the pick-up time. On Thursday, we arrived at the airport, having been driven there and unloaded the luggage, …
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CHRISTMAS TREES The Chief Penguin and I gave up having a live Christmas tree some years ago since we were almost always out of town. We thought we moved one of our 2 ft. blinking-colored-lights trees, but alas, we had not. Consequently, we enjoy all the decorated trees in our building. And yesterday, the North Carolina extended …
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