Reading and Roaming
WATCHING THE ECLIPSE The highlight of this past week was certainly the eclipse on Monday afternoon. We were not in an area for a total eclipse but were expected to get 80-84% coverage. It was a lovely sunny day with lots of blue sky. The Chief Penguin and I walked to the downtown park, partly for better viewing, …
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A MARVELOUS WEEK This was a week about as close to perfection as one could request. Everyone seemed to have a grand time. Tim and Jen had multiple opportunities for tennis and honing their game. The girls, 7 and almost 11, spent hours in the pool, swimming, jumping, racing one another, and playing with several visiting girls. In quieter …
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DOCUDRAMA OF FALSE IDENTITY INVENTING ANNA (Netflix) Anna Delvey, Russian by birth, presented herself in New York as a German heiress with a large trust fund. Only 25, she grandly aspired to create a club cum art gallery called ADF, the Anna Delvey Foundation. Poised, confident, and brazen, she led the high life, courted the A-list of society, …
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With the arrival of cooler weather, perhaps you are spending more time indoors, When you get tired of reading or knitting, I have three top-notch television series to recommend. Call the Midwife (PBS) It’s hard to believe that this is the 10th season of Call the Midwife. Early seasons drew extensively from the memoirs of midwife Jennifer Worth. Successive seasons …
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