Reading and Roaming
WHAT I’M WATCHING To stay motivated on the treadmill, I take advantage of the offerings on streaming Netflix. Over the years, I watched the entire seven seasons of West Wing (that one on DVD), got hooked on a somewhat hokey Australian series about two long lost sisters running a sheep farm, was caught up in …
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It is high summer in Florida and that means temperatures of 90 to 92 every day with overnight lows never below 75. For some of us, like me, that means more time inside; for the lizards among us, it’s great for basking, or baking, in the sun. So I strive to take advantage of the …
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AT THE MOVIES “Madcap,” ” hilarious” and “fun” are all terms I’d use to describe just released espionage comedy, Spy. The women are at the top of their game—mostly—and there is plenty of foreign intrigue and too many bodies getting shot to count. The wonderful cast is led by Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a basement …
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NATURE My sister and brother-in-law, an avid birder and an apprentice birder (self-named), visited us this week and the focus was on birds. It’s the off season for good sightings, but my sister kept a list of birds seen in Florida anyway. I think she got to forty before they departed. Lots of shore birds …
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