Tidy Tidbits: Watching & Reading

MOVIES AT HOME In this age of online video and fast migration from movie screen to TV screen, it’s possible to view many first run movies at home almost immediately after their release.  Here are two relatively recent films we just watched.  We rented each one for 48 hours for the nominal fee of $5.99, much cheaper …

Tidy Tidbits: Mostly Books

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES This year, for perhaps the first time ever, we stayed home for Christmas and purchased and put up a live tree.  In more recent years, we’ve gone to Manhattan for about ten days to see family.  This time, our son and family and our daughter-in-law’s parents all came to Florida.  With lively granddaughters ages 6 ½ …

The Season of Lists

Some of us make lists all year long:  to-do lists, grocery lists, shopping lists, and the like.  I am an inveterate list maker, always have been.  As was my mother so I suppose I inherited this tendency as did at least one of my sisters.  It’s satisfying to create a list and then check off items as they are …

Tidy Tidbits: Books & More

RECENT READING VEGAS SHOWGIRL All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church     This is Church’s second novel, and while I enjoyed it a lot, I think The Atomic Weight of Love is better. It is the story of Lily Decker aka Ruby Wilde, from Kansas, who becomes a Las Vegas showgirl in the 1960’s.  …