Reading and Roaming
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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MYSTERY: JIMMY PEREZ IS BACK The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves It’s been seven years since Ann Cleeves published the final Shetland mystery, Wild Fire. She thought she was done with detective Jimmy Perez and ready to move on to other stories. But earlier visits to the Orkney Islands called out to her. It’s gentler than Shetland, and she’s set …
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VIEWING: HISTORY MADE VIVID The American Revolution (PBS) Ken Burns has done it again! The American Revolution, his latest series, is fascinating, compelling, and a rich viewing experience. The Chief Penguin and I just completed the second episode (each is two hours, so we watch half at a time), but we are finding it eye-opening. Burns has assembled a wide …
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