Reading and Roaming
EASTER THOUGHTS As a child, I grew up going to Sunday School and celebrating Easter in church. Spring usually meant a new dress, but always a new spring coat. Spring coats then were pastel colors, pale blue, yellow, or pink. Made of lightweight wool, you wore it over a pretty dress along with a fancy hat to church …
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WATCHING: POLITICAL HISTORY Argentina 1985 (Amazon Prime) This political film is inspired by real events. It focuses on the groundbreaking 1985 civil trial of nine Argentine military leaders. These individuals were charged with being responsible for the kidnappings, torture, and disappearance of hundreds of people during the country’s dictatorship period. The main character is prosecutor Julio Stassera, a …
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CELEBRATIONS Covid Thanksgiving For most everyone I know, Covid-19 put a crimp in their holiday plans. Travel cancelled, gatherings reduced in size, no family present and on it goes. It’s probably the strangest Thanksgiving most of us have experienced. But ours was still a very good one. We are healthy (priority one, I’d say), and we enjoyed a …
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It seems appropriate on this Father’s Day to talk about relationships. Both the novel by Anne Tyler and Lori Gottlieb’s book about therapy say something about parent-child relationships, our most important first relationships. I’ve also included some snippets about my own father whom I still miss after forty plus years. READING UPDATE Clock Dance by Anne …
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