Reading and Roaming
We spent Thanksgiving week in North Carolina enjoying relaxing times with family, but also dining out with my sisters and brothers-in-law. Chapel Hill and Greensboro offer a range of choices; here are several we tried. I also admired the last of the fall colors, here and there spectacular red and blazing yellow foliage. IN GREATER …
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RECENT VIEWING FLUFF FOR FUN Love and Gelato (Netflix) Lina promises her dying mother that she will spend the summer before college in Rome. In this bonbon to Italy, she falls in love with the city and the people. Along the way, she has several romantic interests while being under the protective care of Francesca, her mother’s longtime …
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DC SOCIAL SCENE ON SCREEN Georgetown (Amazon Prime) Georgetown, a movie offering from Prime, is inspired by shocking real events. Mot, an immigrant to the U.S., aspires to grand adventures and a role in the diplomatic world. Charming and debonair, he meets a grand dame socialite and former journalist, invites her to lunch and flatters her. When Elsa’s husband dies, …
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MOMENTOUS MOMENT This has been a dramatic week with the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion upending Roe v. Wade. For many of us who were of age in 1973, contemplating a return to when abortion is no longer a legal right/option is positively medieval. It feels so very wrong. Pro-choice protests erupted in cities near …
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